Word: pryce
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Under this bill, sponsored by Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio), legal immigrants would still be forced to wait five years before becoming eligible for welfare benefits. This policy is offensive; it denies aid to those who face not only economic difficulties but also cultural and linguistic barriers. Legal immigrants should be treated no differently than those who have held longer residency—they should be aided and welcomed into our society, not hung out to dry for their first few years in America...
...script supplies Jeanne (Hilary Swank) with a good motive for her crime: she is supposed to be a noblewoman who has lost her lands and family because they fell out of favor with the crown. It also places her in some amusingly bad company--a sexually voracious Cardinal (Jonathan Pryce), a courtier who is too clever by half (Simon Baker), a fake noble husband (Adrien Brody) and the mystic mountebank Cagliostro (Christopher Walken, who is, as always, deliciously weird). You may not be able to follow the overall arc of their scheming, but scene by scene they are a delightful...
...bigger challenge for this 54-year-old actor is, of course, how to approach a role that has for decades been so closely identified with someone else. Pryce said he wasn't daunted by the prospect "probably because I had never actually seen [Harrison] in the part. Then, the night before rehearsals began, I couldn't resist any longer and watched the movie...
...Pryce, who has played the lead in everything from Hamlet to Miss Saigon, clearly has found a way to make this role his own. For one thing, Pryce's professor is decidedly more energetic than Harrison's. He prances up a 6-m library ladder, dances over couches and chairs, and races up and down a spiral staircase, singing all the while. Yes he sings. The lyrics of such famous songs, mostly spoken by Harrison, like Why Can't a Woman Be More like a Man? and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face are reborn with Pryce...
...Pryce is also currently crooning in his newest bittersweet comedy titled Very