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...Peter J. Gomes eyed the scorpion bowl in front of him, stuck the foot-long straw between his lips, sipped a bit of the potent punch, paused and then pronounced, “It tastes like orange juice!” While the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals chowed down on chicken fried rice and drank deeply from the Kong’s “communal cup,” I, along with my classmates in Religion 1513, observed...
...doting parents. Despite his focus on the darker corners of the human psyche, Nolan is shaping up as one of the latter. "He's so calm," says Hilary Swank, who plays Insomnia's idealistic local detective, "and really aware of people's safety. In the scene where I get punched by Robin, Chris made sure it was all worked out and rehearsed, and we did just three takes. Usually directors want 20 to make sure they sell the punch...
...LAGO, 90, Brazilian actor, samba composer, poet and political dissident; in Rio de Janeiro. Lago appeared in more than 30 telenovelas (Brazilian soap operas) and 20 films, and wrote more than 200 songs. A leftist, Lago was repeatedly imprisoned during Brazil's military regime from 1964 to 1986. CLOSED. PUNCH, the English-language satirical magazine first published in 1841; in London. Punch was shut down once before, in 1992, due to declining sales. Four years later, it was revived by tycoon Mohamed al Fayed, owner of London's famed Harrods department store. But Fayed said he could no longer afford...
...awards ceremony that the jury had decided to give it the Palme d'Or (top prize). Yet Im settled for half of the Best Director prize (roughly a fourth-place award); he had to share it with U.S. director Paul Thomas Anderson, cited for the Adam Sandler comedy Punch-Drunk Love...
...high school junior from Salida, Calif., is a C student with a filthy mouth who has been known to saunter into class on his own schedule. And, yes, as Russell readily admits, after a bout of name-calling with a white classmate last fall, he threw the first punch in a fistfight that left him battered and his adversary with five stitches over his left...