Word: ryan
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TIME's Lina Lofaro spoke to Amy Ryan (The Wire) about her role as Helene, the terrifying, alcoholic mother of a missing child, in Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone...
TIME: You've done Broadway, movies and TV, but this is really a great breakout role. RYAN: You're right. An actor can only be as good as the writing, and I really lucked out with this incredibly well written part that Ben and Aaron adapted from Dennis Lehane's novel. I knew when I read the script: this is so rare. I thought, "there is not a chance in hell I'll get this part." I thought, "there are too many incredible actresses of note ahead...
...Saturday, the current President stopped at the 3rd Army's Camp Arifjan in Kuwait to get a briefing on the war from Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, and to do some morale-boosting with the troops. He made the most the timing: his visit came just over a year since he announced the troop surge, and he reminded his audience that last year's strategy shift was initially scorned in the U.S. but has turned out to be remarkably effective. At the dusty rally with troops, flanked by an enormous American flag, Bush projected that...
...Ryan M. Travia, Harvard’s director of alcohol and substance abuse services, said that while Iowa’s plan makes sense in theory, he would hesitate to apply it here until more research is done...
...momentum has swung to McCain. Campaign insiders found their phones ringing merrily on Wednesday morning as donors hustled to hop on the latest bandwagon. "We're ready to schedule as many fund raisers in one week as we've had in the rest of the year put together," said Ryan Ballard, a national co-chair of McCain's money team. "I haven't had enough time to answer all the calls I'm getting - from Romney people, mostly, but even from Giuliani people looking over their shoulders and hedging their bets...