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...neuroticisms, self-deprecating humor, and, thankfully, the characteristic on-screen appearance by the aging director himself. Nor does the protagonist, Chris Wilton (Jonathan-Rhys Meyer) seem like a caricature of the auteur. For once, a Woody Allen film seems less about the man, and more about the nature of passion and obsession.Not only has Allen abstracted himself from the plot, but the native New Yorker has also moved his setting from his usual Manhattan streets to a romanticized London, which both affords him a brilliant group of young British actors and opens up cinematographic potential to explore the cavernous Tate...
...editing,” Tobin said. Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language Marjorie Garber, who recently published Shakespeare After All, called Evans’ edition of Shakespeare’s complete works “a splendid, enduring accomplishment.” Evans maintained his intellectual passion and focus even in his last years, his colleagues said. Evans finished correcting the proofs on his final work, a study of the lesser-known Elizabethan poet Robert Parry, about a month before his death, Tobin said. “For someone his age to continue to have done...
...damn lucky person,” she says. “I have friends who are seniors in college who are graduating this year and who still don’t know what the hell they want to do with their lives. I feel lucky to have a passion and be successful at it.”Johansson initially did apply to New York University’s arts school in 2003, but was rejected. In retrospect, fortune may have fallen in her favor. She admits that the dorms-and-dining-halls lifestyle may not suit her, even as she?...
...interview yesterday, Sullivan praised Reeves’ experience as well as his interest in improving public education.“Ken, I believe, will be able to help us work together. He’s very, very bright, he’s articulate, he has a great deal of passion for people, and he has a desire to focus on the educational system,” Sullivan said. “Ken is more than up to the task, having served two terms prior. I think Ken will help us move in the right track about addressing the needs...
Experienced preachers behind him felt fleeting anxiety that King might miss his landing, because he was in full passion on a peroration unsuited to close. The "sneeze" run always came earlier in his speeches, being informal and thin. King sputtered at the podium, then slipped a gear. "And they were telling me--now it doesn't matter now," he said. "It really doesn't matter. I left Atlanta this morning ..." He told briskly of the bomb scare on his plane and how the pilot had announced that threats to King had generated a precautionary overnight guard for the aircraft...