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...game like this requires good actors to give it heft and plausibility. I'm not asking for today's equivalents of Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, the stars of the Sleuth movie, but there's more to acting, even horror movie acting, than screaming in agony and shouting in rage. Whannel (who is charm personified when chatting about the film on the DVD featurette) and Elwes can't manage the crucial middle range of emotions the two men have to feel in the moments when they're not trying to kill each other or save themselves...
...simple compared with the 1989 storming of St. Patrick's Cathedral by AIDS activists. Gallaudet's current protests, which began months ago and have involved blockades and arrests and charges of violence on both sides, aren't Selma; they're Chicago in 1969, the deaf community's Days of Rage...
DIED. Wang Guangmei, 85, elegant former first lady of China who was targeted during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. Wang suffered because of a falling out between her husband ex-President Liu Shaoqi and Mao Zedong--which landed Liu in jail, where he died--as well as the jealous rage of Mao's wife Jiang Qing. The well-educated Wang was also imprisoned and once suffered a public parade in which she was forced to wear a necklace of Ping-Pong balls...
...excuse the violence, but it has always seemed to me a precariously fine line to expect football players to keep their gladiatorial rage precisely within the culturally-condoned confines of the sport—between the sidelines and between whistles...
...conscience of a nation and helped liberate a people; that the bomb had burst a dam to let justice roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. And yet would even that knowledge be enough to console your grief, to keep you from madness and eternal rage - unless you also knew that your child had gone on to a better place...