Word: owen
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...OWEN D. YOUNG 1929 Negotiating the debts and arrears of World...
There were four other Rhodes Scholars at Harvard this year, all of whom were undergraduates from the United States. They are: Roy E. Bahat '98, Valerie J. MacMillan '98, Julia Raiskin '98 and Owen S. Woziak...
...Harvard students are Roy E. Bahat '98 of Leverett House, Valerie J. MacMillan '98 of Adams House, Julia Raiskin '98 of Pforzheimer House and Owen S. Wozniak '98 of Quincy House...
...with that caveat in mind that a viewer will have to approach Bent, a reworking of the 1979 Martin Sherman play which treats the persecution and internment of gay men in Nazi Germany. Handsome and likable but startlingly self-centered, playboy Max (Clive Owen) regularly hurts the feelings of his young lover Rudy (Brian Webber) by sleeping around with other men. But one night Max picks up the wrong soldier at a club, and the next morning the Gestapo appears at their door. On the run from the S.S. for two years, Max and Rudy are finally captured...
...film's acting is generally above average; unfortunately, that's not quite enough to make things work in a film so character-oriented as Bent. Owen's Max is conventionally handsome and is good at looking worried, but he doesn't quite succeed in letting us see into his inner world. It doesn't help that the chemistry between him and his first lover, Rudy, is almost nonexistent. Webber as Rudy exaggerates the younger man's submissiveness to the point that the character becomes almost infantile--while we sympathize with his helplessness, he's petulant enough to alienate the audience...