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...Quiet on the Western Front, played opposite Greta Garbo and portrayed Dr. Kildare in the MGM film series. During World War II, Ayres provoked an outcry by declining combat duty. (He served as a medic and chaplain's aide.) Weathering the controversy, he went on to receive an Oscar nomination for his role in Johnny Belinda...
...Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen--in the second longest film released by a major studio (after Cleopatra). If Kenneth Branagh doesn't win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut Hamlet, he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award...
James Shapiro will speak at the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26.The 1998 Oscar-winning film “Shakespeare in Love” has made us lust for a glimpse of the Bard’s romantic side. But in “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599,” scholar James Shapiro finds no evidence of an amorous element in the playwright’s life at the end of the 16th century. “If Shakespeare was in love...
...differ. While it is no Oscar-winner, his committed-soldier routine is very believable, and at times very menacing. This is much more than one can say for any of the other marines, who, for the most part, thankfully get killed off one by one. The movie also makes a ridiculous attempt at a reunion subplot between John and his estranged scientist sister Samantha (played by Rosamund Pike, of secondary Bond girl fame in “Die Another Day” and soon to be Jane Bennett of “Pride & Prejudice?...
...action against the company, resulting in 1996 in a $330 million settlement, the largest-ever toxic tort injury settlement in U.S. history. Brockovich-Ellis’ crusade was dramatized in the 2001 Hollywood blockbuster “Erin Brockovich,” starring actress Julia Roberts, who won an Oscar for the role.But many scientists insist that no link has been established between the contaminants in the water and the cancer cases in Hinkley, Calif. According to studies published by the Environmental Protection Agency and available on its website, “No data were located in the available literature...