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...Oscar for Braveheart), the tone isn't always pious. Gibson loves to goof. Playing practical jokes is a way of keeping the crew loose, asserting the primal jester inside the armor of a star's machismo. So to wrap up the temple take, he has a quiet word with Morgenstern and steps back to leave the actress alone--staring dolefully into the camera with a bright-red clown nose he has stuck on her face. Cut. Print. Amen...
DIED. PAUL MONASH, 85, film producer of such classics as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Slaughterhouse-Five; after a brief illness; in Los Angeles. He wrote, directed and produced the hit 1960s television series Peyton Place and wrote the TV movies All Quiet on the Western Front and Salem...
...eventually climb as high as 250,000; it seems that Bush is set on going to war, no matter the outcome of the inspections. Yet vocal protests—on this campus and others across the nation—to what is seemingly an inevitable war have been quiet compared to protests of the 1960s. Admittedly, this is not Vietnam, and a war on the other side of the world without a draft does not rile up students in quite the same...
...doctrine: Caveat Pre-Emptors. We have the moral responsibility to pre-empt evildoers...unless they have the ability to empt back (as North Korea does). This is an embarrassment, and a rather dangerous one at that. There should be a lesson in it for the President. A diplomacy of quiet strength and careful words, and the rigorous parsing of nuances--the latter, a word the President is said to despise--is the only way for a grown-up superpower to behave...
...Harvard University Police Department officers were sent to Lowell House to quiet a loud party...