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...despite claims of giving all the proceeds to the Diana, Princess of Wales' Charities, it has "never donated a penny to the fund." On Friday the Mint retorted in a press release, saying, "This lawsuit must be a mistake," claiming that $1.5 million has been donated to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, a favorite charity of the late princess. In a bid to seize the high ground, the Mint goes on to say, "Name calling and baseless lawsuits of this type don't serve anyone--certainly not the memory of Princess Diana...
...been using electronic cash cards for more than two years. The kids at school have them; I use mine daily. Cash cards are all over the place. Does this mean that Portuguese villagers in the suburbs of Lisbon are technologically ahead of people in the Big Apple? ORMOND FANNON Cascais, Portugal...
What will surprise everyone is the dry iciness, the burning coldness of Ormond's Smilla. Up to now she has trafficked largely in vulnerability--melting in Legends of the Fall, perhaps a shade too winsome in Sabrina. Here, she is all contained fury, except for the flashes of anger and contempt that burst without warning from the darkness within. It's not exactly diva acting such as we used to get from the great ladies of the movies' classic era. She achieves her effects with less obvious calculation. But like a Barbara Stanwyck or a Bette Davis, she takes...
...Bille August's intricate and compelling realization of Peter Hoeg's best-selling novel, Smilla Jaspersen has given her professional life over to the frozen music of mathematics, her private life over to bone-chilling isolation. The set of Smilla's face, the carriage of her body, as Julia Ormond plays her, says, "Don't ask, don't touch." She relents--angry at the show of weakness--for just one person. That is a lonely little boy named Isaiah, who lives in her apartment building...
...Bille August's intricate and compelling realization of Peter Hoeg's best-selling novel, Smilla Jaspersen has given her professional life over to the frozen music of mathematics, her private life over to bone-chilling isolation. The set of Smilla?s face, the carriage of her body, as Julia Ormond plays her, says, ?Don?t ask, don?t touch.? She relents -- angry at the show of weakness -- for just one person. That is a lonely little boy named Isaiah, who lives in her apartment building. One day Smilla comes home from work and finds Isaiah dead, the victim...