Word: poignantly
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...such devotion to an over-the-hill hack? This wasn't a case of, say, a blue-blooded Barbaro coming to a poignant end at the apex of his career. Silent Witness inspired loyalty and fervor partly because he was a global champion. He repeatedly trounced many of the world's best speedsters. For the Hong Kong Jockey Club, internationally renowned for its wealth and incomparable facilities but not, till recently, the quality of its thoroughbreds, Silent Witness showed the Club packed horsepower too. Though racing has played a central role in Hong Kong's social and economic life since...
...distinctive, well-reviewed and as un-lucrative as his movie career. A few years ago, the missing film was discovered in New York City and in 2006, Henzell finally licked No Place Like Home into shape and got it shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. In a poignant coda, the film had its Jamaican premiere on Dec. 1 - the day after Henzell, 70, died of cancer...
...journey of the Lost Boys is poignant and engrossing, but it's not unfamiliar. Beah, however, is a new breed; he's not just a victim but a perpetrator. For almost the first time, we are seeing life from behind the dead eyes of a killer child. And life is not good. How many people did he kill? "I really have no idea," Beah says during an interview in Paris, where he is taking some time off before his publicity tour. "I never thought to keep count. We attacked civilians, villagers--anyone the commander deemed was an enemy; we killed...
...play, Broadway Bound, which opened on Broadway last week, he also lived its essence. Sometimes when his mother told the story, her partner was George Raft, sometimes it was George Burns. "I heard it twisted around so many ways," he says. "It could have been Rudolph Valentino." Nonetheless, the poignant sweetness of her recollections and the faintly acrid aftertaste of his own uneasy detachment flavored Simon's adolescence. As he rose during adulthood from deprivation to celebrity, creating hit TV shows, then dozens of gag-laden Broadway shows and jauntily comic movies, he thought from time to time of writing...
...Blood Diamond EDDIE MURPHY, Dreamgirls MARK WAHLBERG, The Departed EDDIE MURPHY There's nothing like revitalized talent for Oscar bait. Murphy shows some of his early-career thunder in a serious role. JACKIE EARLE HALEY A kid actor who was out of the biz for a decade, he's poignant in the role of the child molester in Little Children. BRAD PITT O.K., he's still got Angelina. But Pitt's pro bono work as a grieving, angry husband in Babel merited an Oscar nod. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ADRIANA BARRAZA, Babel CATE BLANCHETT, Notes on a Scandal ABIGAIL BRESLIN, Little...