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...advances of Jonathan RhysMeyers, playing a character who may soon be her brother-in-law. She was, at the time, 19, and although she had been acting in movies for a decade, she had more often been a chastely yearned for object (Lost in Translation, Girl with a Pearl Earring) than an active participant in a dark romance...
...admit that.”She also professes some similarities to her damaged-goods character. “In every character I play there’s some aspect of myself,” she says. As the undervalued assistant to Vermeer in “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” she identified with her sense of longing, and for her role as Charlotte in “Lost in Translation,” it was a sense of displacement.“In this case I was very intrigued by the desperation of my character...
Also jammed into Scene is a jejune 10-page spread sponsored by Brooks Brothers—purveyor of fine off-the-rack clothing, est. post-Industrial Revolution—featuring pearl accessories as desperately cultured—or culturally desperate perhaps—as the presented models. But even these failings suggest an aspiration for refinement, something that cannot be said for the barnyard article on sexual lubricants. “KY Jelly is to sex as grape jelly is to gourmet…Even cheep [sic] porn directors know that the only thing grocery store lubricant is good...
...only 30 have been produced) are each the fruit of 700 hours labor and can be customized with a buyer's name or logo. Champagne flutes, an ice bucket, cashmere throws and an array of other little knickknacks without which no gathering is complete?including truffle graters, mother-of-pearl caviar spoons and a Dunhill cigar cutter?are supplied. Krug will even throw in three bottles of its Grand Cuv?e to help get the party started?and with a trunk like this, how could one fail to make an entrance? It certainly beats showing up with half a dozen cans...
...Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Elliott Abrams during a congressional hearing ... 'Repeated reports of large-scale civilian massacres, forced starvation and impeded humanitarian relief operations indicate that Uganda has one of the most serious human rights problems in the world today' ... At one time known as the 'Pearl of Africa,' Uganda has been beset by tribal rivalries ever since it won its independence from Britain in 1962 ... Ugandan soldiers have destroyed villages and crops and herded civilians into detention camps in an effort, as Abrams put it, 'to dry up the civilian sea that the guerrillas swim...