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...mold of Fatty Arbuckle, Jackie Leonard, Buddy Hackett, Rodney Dangerfield and Jackie Gleason, James is different in not using his weight as an excuse for high-pressure comedy - a giant tea kettle ready to blow its top. The star of TV's The King of Queens, he's a Ralph Kramden without anger issues. In Paul Blart, as in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (where he starred with Adam Sandler, this film's executive producer), James gets laughs by underreacting to the humiliations the world heaps on a heavy...
...Hare could be up for another Oscar nod this year for his latest screenplay, an adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader. The film, with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, follows a German teenager's love affair with an older woman he later discovers was a Nazi concentration-camp guard. For Hare, it's both a meditation on truth and reconciliation, and an exploration of how ordinary Germans became complicit in Nazi horrors. The Reader revisits his signature subject: how personal responsibility meshes with historical events. And it underlines his role as modern theater's great connector, examining...
...word should go out to any other would-be terrorists of the homegrown variety that the United States will find you, infiltrate your group, prosecute you and send you to a federal prison for a very long time," said acting United States Attorney Ralph Marra...
...hundreds deep at Holy Trinity Brompton for a chance to share a free meal, listen to a sermon, sing devotional songs and decide if they want to let Jesus into their heart. At a busy Alpha course session in November, attended by some 900 people, long-necked beauties in Ralph Lauren swanned among blond, ruddy chaps in blue velvet blazers. Nicky Gumbel, 53, the .0former Etonian and one-time barrister who founded the course to better reach young people, wore green socks, loafers and an open collar shirt. Gumbel, HTB's vicar since 2005, started proceedings by suggesting that participants...
...film, or music for their final projects.This academic freedom is reinforced through the satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading system, Naddaff said.By allowing the pressure for grades to be lifted, students can evolve past the high school mentality of learning solely for the sake of a final grade, said professor of applied biology Ralph Mitchell.Freshman seminars also allow first-years to build intellectual relationships with their professors.“Instead of a professor standing in front of an audience and essentially performing, the freshman seminar is an interaction between the faculty member and the student,” said Mitchell, who teaches...