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...Zellweger). As Ada passes her Ruby Thewes days struggling to keep her farm from failing and the local bully Teague (Ray Winstone) from pressing his lurid attentions on her, Inman meets all manner of strangers--good witches and bad, a rogue (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a young widow (Natalie Portman). Inman shows how fleeing a war can be an act of love, Ada how staying at home is an act of courage...
...satisfactions and surprises. Law has movie-star musk and the craft to fill his peasant garb with a heroic sensitivity. Kidman seems uncomfortable early on, but she takes strength from Ada's plight and grows steadily, literally luminous. Her sculptural pallor gives way to warm radiance in the firelight. Portman lends a tender ferocity to the widow aching for the presence--the memory, really--of a good man's body next to hers. As for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, voting is now officially closed; Zellweger should take it by acclamation...
...Commission experienced a series of setbacks, beginning last year, due to misunderstandings between its organizers and College administrators, and it eventually became “too much” for Portman, she explains...
...Portman lived in Grays West during her first year at Harvard, moving to a Lowell House suite as a sophomore. By her junior year, she says, she felt she needed more personal space than the House system would allow...
...Portman spent the year living alone in an apartment in the Square. Since returning to Cambridge this past semester, she has been living near the Yard with her “best, best friend”—a fellow senior, not just Charlie...