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...FRIENDS? Yes. That morning I crashed her show. Then she was giving a party for Portia [de Rossi], her significant other, and they invited me to come over to the Roosevelt [Hotel]. Prince was there. Queen Latifah was there. It was really, really such a beautiful group of people. We danced, and we hugged. It was just beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Terrence Howard | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...Portia Quayne is that dangerous thing, an innocent. At 16 she is put in the care of her prosperous older half-brother and his reluctant wife. They and their heedless friends show her the disenchanted kingdom of adulthood. It's not a pretty picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 10 of TIME's Hundred Best Novels | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...better, if one of those white-coated geniuses will come up with a cure. Gilbert realizing that once Emily is gone, he will go too, since her way of life, however wretched, was their way of life. He is afraid for them both. In The Merchant of Venice Portia says that mercy is "twice blessed;/ It blesses him that gives and him that takes." The murder committed, Gilbert does not feel blessed. At best, he feels he did right, which the outer world agrees with and denies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Quality of Mercy Killing | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...record, Jeremy Irons is the melancholy, homoerotic Antonio, and the American Lynn Collins an efficient Portia, in what we may call the Al Pacino Merchant of Venice. Director Michael Radford, going heavily for brooding atmosphere, has shrouded the canal town in dank mists until the Adriatic could be the river Styx. He has also wrapped the play in historical perspective, noting the sorry plight of Jews in 1596 Venice. This makes Shylock's demand for a pound of Christian flesh his righteous revenge for all the spittle and slander he has absorbed. Pacino emphasizes Shylock's gnomish outsider status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Quiet Venom | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...film's end, Shylock gets one last glowering close-up, as if to say, "It was Portia's legal victory. But it's my movie." The angry little man is right. --By Richard Corliss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Quiet Venom | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

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