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...Gibson's Maya adventure. "A story like this has never been done before," says Trujillo, who plays a sinister Maya warrior named Zero Wolf. "Mel is fearless that way." Mayra Sérbulo, a Mexican Zapotec Indian who has been nominated this year for an Ariel (Mexico's Oscar) as best supporting actress, agrees. "People do have to remember that this is action fiction, not a Maya documentary," she warns. "But I'm frankly surprised and excited about the care they're taking to portray indigenous Mexicans...
...avoid roommates like him. My last roommate is the “messy kid.” While I’ll admit that we all contribute to the swamp that we call our room, this guy is definitely the primary reason we are living in an environment that Oscar the Grouch would envy. Given all the strange growths thriving in our room, it feels like we are living in God’s experimental Petri dish. If you prefer the freedom of walking around your room without tripping on a suitcase that hasn’t been unpacked since...
...sermon of love for humanity and his hope for the alleviation of its suffering. Bottom Line: The juxtaposition of violence and beauty, of blatant subtlety and masked naivety, elevate the simple story line of Gavin Hood’s “Tsotsi” to an Oscar-winning, emotionally profound masterpiece...
...tradition of awarding black actors for fulfilling clichéd roles—when it awards them at all—is one that can be traced back to over 75 years ago, when, as George Clooney noted on Sunday, it “gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the back of theaters.” While Clooney undoubtedly meant this observation as praise for the Academy’s boldness, McDaniel’s Best Supporting Actress win was actually an affirmation of the sexless and happily subservient mammy role that...
...Bush Administration has dodged another electoral bullet south of the border, but only by the narrowest of margins. Nobel Peace laureate Oscar Arias was finally declared the winner of Costa Rica?s presidential election on Tuesday-ending a tense, month-long manual vote recount that almost put another anti-U.S. leftist in power in Latin America, this time in one of the region?s most traditionally stable and U.S.-friendly nations...