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...money to vilify him," says press secretary Margita Thompson, "but it doesn't faze him." Yet when he attended a recent Sacramento film screening the very sight of a nurse in periwinkle-hued hospital scrubs unnerved his security guards, who pulled the ticketed customer out of her fifth-row seat and interrogated her for an hour before releasing her. "They treated me like I was a terrorist," says Kelly Di Giacomo, a Sacramento cardiac nurse...
...more surprising considering the powerful moral conscience that goes along with his earnestly dapper looks and rakish charm. Those qualities could have bought him a breezy, pleasant kind of stardom, but Robbins has chosen the high road with weighty films like 1995’s death-row drama Dead Man Walking and 1999’s Cradle Will Rock, about leftist theater in the Great Depression, both of which he wrote and directed...
...currently run the Learn to Row programs at a club in Vancouver, B.C., and have been amazed at the attention paid to safety here. We never send an inexperienced boat out without at least one coach in the coxswain’s seat and a launch to follow it. I know that solution is hardly feasible at Harvard, short of hiring many varsity rowers to help out, but perhaps the intramural folks need to consider a program that will give coxswains on-water experience before putting them in charge of a novice crew...
...TIMES. You go. Sometimes you have the goods. With Unforgiven, we were kind of favored and we prevailed, at least as Best Picture, the nicest one to have. And then last year [with Mystic River] we got Hobbitized. Now, here I am back the second year in a row. It's almost like the kid won't go away. Maybe they'll give it to him just...
...political ideals espoused by the star, who has long used his celebrity as a platform to highlight issues of social justice. Robbins has written and directed films including 1995’s Dead Man Walking, about a nun’s efforts to help a convicted killer on death row, and 1999’s Cradle Will Rock, a vivid portrayal of leftist stagecraft in the Great Depression...