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...said Grzecki before delving into selections from the book. This reissue is based on an original version owned by Gus Sousa, a rare book collector and resident of Salem, Mass. The ’Poonsters admitted in the foreward that the nearly century-old work might not appeal to readers with more modern tastes, saying that if the work was not their “‘best’ parody,” it was certainly their “most inaccessible.” “Not that this should stop the well-intentioned, naive reader...
...Winslet has somehow avoided that pigeonhole entirely. She doesn't play girls; she never really has. She plays women. Unsentimentalized, restless, troubled, discontented, disconcerted, difficult women. And clearly, it's working for her. Her two most recent performances - as Hanna Schmitz, the illiterate former concentration-camp guard in The Reader, and as April Wheeler, the anguished, rageful 1950s wife and mother in Revolutionary Road - have earned her two Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild prize, a British Academy Award (BAFTA) and her sixth Oscar nomination, a benchmark that no actor so young has ever before reached. (See the Oscar...
More than any of her peers, Winslet can shape her greatest moments within those silences. In The Reader, she bares her character in the piercing looks of lust, suspicion, self-loathing and judgment that Hanna directs at her young lover and in her terrible stares of incomprehension during her trial. And Revolutionary Road pivots on the scene in which April, sitting on the beach next to her husband, realizes that he is never going to keep his promise that they'll move to Paris - that he will always ultimately fail her. It's a shattering realization that Winslet conveys...
...that's where Winslet's identification with them ends. Playing The Reader's Hanna was, she says, "like staring down a long, dark tunnel and searching for a fleck of light at the end, but there f___ing isn't one. There was nothing of her that I could relate to. Just nothing." When Daldry approached her about replacing Nicole Kidman, who had left the project in January 2008 after becoming pregnant, "I was concerned about whether I was skilled enough," Winslet says. The nudity required for the film's sex scenes didn't unsettle her - though she now says...
...from the chill wind of the market.) Like other online newspapers, the Guardian has yet to figure out how to monetize its millions of visitors - in other words, how to make a buck off them. According to calculations made by Digital Deliverance's Crosbie, it takes 16 online readers to make up for one lost print reader on the bottom line. "If you do the math, you see they're never going to make the money they were used to making," he says...