Word: pianist
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...PIANIST. Adrien Brody’s magnetic, largely silent performance in Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama almost compensates for The Pianist’s inconsistent tone and distasteful politi
...even more glibly than admissions officers themselves, makes me glad that I’ve got both feet firmly planted on this side of Byerly Hall. On a recruiting trip a few weeks ago, I was enthusiastically given a resume by a girl who was a professional model, concert pianist and champion debater. Her resume is a full two pages longer than mine, with “Vogue” and “Seventeen” listed under a lengthy “Publications” section. I dutifully passed on her resume to the Admissions Office and thanked...
...PIANIST. Adrien Brody’s magnetic, largely silent performance in Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama almost compensates for The Pianist’s inconsistent tone and distasteful political sensibilities. Brody’s Wladek Szpilman, who could hardly have picked a worse time and place to be Jewish, transforms from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction...
...subdued dresses (J. Lo wore a toga), with the usual $22,000 dollar-gift basket presenters, while the local news station interspersed the broadcast with announcements asking residents to donate sunscreen to the troops. At least the Academy patted the right part of the back this year, praising The Pianist, a war memoir that is perhaps the only unquestionably appropriate entertainment this week...
...bargain he'd negotiated was in jeopardy of being overturned. But Hollywood loves to forgive old reprobates; it is a way of congratulating them and its own sense of liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back Charles Chaplin, another distinguished foreigner who liked his girls young. It happens that "The Pianist" was a perfect comeback film: a Holocaust film that (like "Schindler's List") is about a Jew outliving Hitler with the help of the goyim; and a semi-autobiography of Polanski, himself a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and after all these years eligible to be considered not a cunning...