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...considerable knitting skills of his mother. Already he's launched Harvie the brand, with his own DVD and website. It's "a great step to whatever the next thing is," says Miranda Dear, "which, of course, we all hope is a feature film." On this subject, Elliot grows as quiet as one of his Claymation creatures, before pointing out that it was 20 years before Aardman Studios (of Wallace and Gromit fame) embarked on Chicken Run. Oscar or not, one suspects Harvie the movie will be quicker to see the light...
When Li Guanqing set off on the first of his 150 pilgrimages to Beijing, he possessed a quiet conviction that justice would be done. It was 1980, and Li's father had been stabbed to death under mysterious circumstances in the family's eastern home province of Shandong. Suspecting that local village chiefs whom Li's father had criticized were to blame, and unable to get any help from police, Li, then 21, gathered his meager life savings and trekked from Shandong to the capital. There, he began endlessly ferrying documents from one government agency to another, hoping each official...
...first among equals as a sex object [is] seen braless on all the shows. She has even on occasion refused to don a bikini, not because she has an objection to the costume but because she felt the only rationale for it was that they had 'reached a quiet point in the script and needed my body to liven things up' ... A warm, giggly sort of girl, she has a sense of humor (asked once when she first realized she was beautiful, she replied, 'Just after the makeup man got here; before that it was touch...
...current production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) will come to a quiet close. This is characteristic of the production, which has been reluctant to promote itself. And it is not likely to be regarded in the same formidable category as some of the company’s more outlandish and controversial Shakespeare productions of the past decade—including Andrei Serban’s Merchant of Venice, which portrayed Shylock as a lip-smacking comic villain, and Ron Daniel’s complete Henry IV, with motorcycling guards...
...never entirely delivers on its promise. “So Many Ways,” with its wistful chorus of “So many ways, so many ways…to lie about this,” is the emotional high point of an album painted in quiet tones. Monsoon may grow on you, but only if you have the time to wander down into Stairs’ basement...