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...dumb.How can a team be properly evaluated before it has played a down? If games were played on paper, the Yankees would have swept the Tigers, and if players’ values were so easily projected from their vitals, Darius Miles would be an All-Star. Or an Oscar winner. In college especially, where the team’s composition by nature changes dramatically every year, these first forecasts are silly.It wouldn’t be so problematic if voters had the ingenuity or inclination to start from scratch in composing their rankings each week. Instead, they employ the previous...
...armed with an Oscar and countless film festival awards, Philip Seymour Hoffman certainly seems to have nailed the role of Truman Capote in last year’s aptly titled “Capote.” One year later, another film emerges that chronicles the era in which Capote lived. Despite the period overlap between the two films, “Infamous” should not be missed on account of its contextual similarities to “Capote...
...method acting. Just three months after wrapping her role as the pregnant unwed teenage Virgin Mary in Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story, due out in December, unwed teenage KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES, 16, is pregnant. No, this isn't the Second Coming; the New Zealander best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2002's Whale Rider is bearing the offspring of her boyfriend of three years, Bradley Hull, 19. After carrying the Son of God in her belly throughout 1st century Israel, Keisha should have no trouble with a regular pregnancy. And if she wants to skip the whole...
...league of screen veterans like Nicholson and Scorsese, Damon and DiCaprio still seem like kids—despite the numerous films under their respective belts and a Best Screenplay Oscar for Damon. Yet “The Departed”—in which the two play challenging roles as men with double identities in the Boston police and crime world—may give Damon and DiCaprio the chance to establish their place among great movie men like Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino...
...Departed” is flawless from start to finish. It’s almost as if Scorsese has been asleep these past few years, and now that he’s awake, he’s brought his dream project to life.Bottom Line: This film is beyond Oscar consideration, beyond best-of-’06 lists. “The Departed” is a modern-day classic. Enjoy.—Reviewer Christopher C. Baker can be reached at ccbaker@fas.harvard.edu...