Word: passion
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...fallen-angel smile. In the scene that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long close-up as Randy pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor - who says he reworked it to reflect his own life - elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn. (The speech is up there with the one Jean-Claude Van Damme, another comeback kid of 2008, gives in his quasi-autobiographical JCVD.) If Rourke had to punish himself to look the part of a battered fighter so he could slip inside Randy...
...passion that bloggers bring to their pursuit: "When bloggers decide that something matters, they chomp down hard and refuse to let go. They're the true pit bulls of reporting. The only way to get them off a story is to cut off their heads, and even then you'll need to pry their jaws open...
...great take on the blues and its road to popularity. The movie gives true meaning and foundation to the classic cliché of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. “Cadillac Records” just feels real: the violence is brutal; the passion is stirring; the move from rags to riches is just as easy as that from riches to rags; and the music is moving...
Theater has always been a passion for Matthew I. Bohrer ’10. “Since I was a little kid I would be trying on costumes or putting together scenes for my friends to act out on the playground,” he says. Bohrer has acted on the stage since high school and has appeared in over a dozen productions at Harvard, but his first foray into writing and directing a play, the three-act “Slipping Away,” will premiere at the Loeb Experimental Theater on Jan. 8. After acting...
...these large required lectures, too much of the passion just escapes into the room through the anonymity of the relationship between the faculty member and the student,” said English professor Elisa New, who served on the committee that wrote the legislation...