Word: potter
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McGregor, 25, has reason to enjoy his busy life. Even before graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he was handed a big role in Dennis Potter's 1993 TV series Lipstick on Your Collar. His dreamboat looks and what Emma director Douglas McGrath calls "a boyish, endearing playfulness" have won him leads on TV (in the BBC's Scarlet and Black) and in seven films (including Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, as a full-frontal demon lover) over the past two years. With Trainspotting, McGregor looks set to take Hollywood, if he cares to. Ralph Fiennes...
...himself against a courtroom full of slickly dressed, high-priced, big-city lawyers. In It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey learns that without his good heart and small-town values, the whole town of Bedford Falls would have fallen to the corrupt greed of Mr. Potter...
...fascinated with rampaging nature? For one thing, it's something we can all relate to and be in awe of. "Severe weather is the great equalizer," says Bob Potter, director of home video for National Geographic Television. Watching people getting manhandled by violent storms, moreover, adds a little excitement to our own humdrum battles with the elements. (Better bundle up--and take that umbrella!) Perhaps, too, it makes us a little more comfortable in our own good sense. Those crazy storm chasers may get some neat pictures, but at least we know enough to come in out of the rain...
...early 1960s, and Frederica Reiver, nee Potter, has married and borne a son to an unsuitable mate. Wealthy Nigel keeps her isolated in his country manor, strongly discouraging any contacts with her former Cambridge friends. "You knew what I was when you married me," she complains, "you knew I was clever and independent and--and ambitious--you seemed to like that." Nigel responds to their disagreements with escalating violence, and one night Frederica flees with her small son to the comparative safety of London...
...that the Crimson has finished its season undefeated, the NISRA Team Tournament (Potter Trophy) awaits. Taking place this Saturday and Sunday at Yale, the NISRA is the final team tournament of the season...