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...schoolteacher mother and carpet-salesman-turned-artist father, Grant graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English. After a stint in repertory ("I was bored playing the tree that waved in the wind and the fourth angry peasant"), he wrote and performed in satirical revues. Grant's drollness led James Ivory to cast him in Maurice, the director's adaptation of E.M. Forster's somber novel about homosexual lovers. Ivory had wanted to bring a dash of humor to the film, and he thought Grant could provide it. Maurice was Grant's first major film role...
...next case was worse. June Weinstock, 52, a journalist and environmentalist from Fairbanks, Alaska, had innocently caressed a boy's head on March 29 after taking photographs of children at a market in the northeastern town of San Cristobal Verapaz. Suddenly, a peasant woman shouted that her son had disappeared. A crowd gathered and began to beat Weinstock. Moments later when the missing boy reappeared, the mother tried to stop the attack. But the mob was egged on, according to a government investigator, by state road workers who threatened to burn Weinstock alive. She was stripped, stoned, stabbed repeatedly, then...
When Esteban the patron (Jeremy Irons) wakes up horny, saddles his horse and goes out to rape a peasant, you just know this isn't going to turn out to be an idle incident. A little later, when he is outraged at discovering his prepubescent daughter Blanca skinny-dipping with Pedro, his estancia foreman's son, you sense that moment too is going to have its consequences somewhere down the plot line. For from its opening frames, The House of the Spirits announces itself as one of those sagas in which there are no accidents, only portents of big-time...
...strategy was not subtle: Zedillo, 42, is appealing to his countrymen's desire for stability and continuity. In the wake of the violent peasant uprising in Chiapas last January, Colosio's assassination has led to a collective sense of unease. Though Zedillo was President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's first choice as the new candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which has ruled Mexico for 65 years, he is little known and woefully short on charisma...
Winona Ryder's unpredictable acting is at its worst in "the House of the Spirit." Love scenes between Pedro and Blanca are meaningless; true passion is completely absent in their relationships. Pedro's attempts at fiery speeches intended to stir the peasant workers into revolt are equally uninspired, and we are left to puzzle over this sudden attempt at a political message...