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...Five Finger Exercise” follows Louise Harrington and her husband Stanley (Matthew J. DaSilva ’12), whose conflicting attitudes towards culture are at one point described as “the difference between the salon and the saloon.” They force these views on their two children: the artistically-inclined Clive (Stewart N. Kramer ’12) and his abrasive but endearing younger sister Pamela (Vanessa...

Author: By Daniel K. Lakhdhir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Finger' Exercises Dramatic Control | 3/9/2010 | See Source »

...returning vet. After the documentary American Pimp, they sent Johnny Depp in pursuit of Jack the Ripper in the 2001 From Hell, based on an Alan Moore graphic novel. Their films exude a tone of lawlessness and despair. The message: whether it's Victorian London or a saloon town 30 years hence, sooner or later every place is Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...this town, humanity is represented by Claudia (Jennifer Beals), Carnegie's mistress and hostage, and her daughter Solara (Mila Kunis); they will be less Eli's allies than his baggage as he fights off Carnegie's gunmen. Not that Eli needs much help. A half-dozen men in the saloon, a dozen or more in a Main Street shoot-out, the whole Carnegie regiment ready to reduce to rubble the rural house Eli has holed up in with a grizzled couple (Brit theatrical giants Michael Gambon and Frances de la Tour) and Solara - none of these armies can bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...health-insurance bill is likely around the bend. It will no longer be as expansive or cheap as some wanted, but it will help millions of folks. Above all, we should not forget the historical moment. We’re at a turning point, and if we end the saloon-style sideshows we can make sure a new era for the American people—and a new era for trust in government as a force for good—arrives with a bang and not a whimper...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: It’s High Noon in America | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...where the action is. The Kennedys of reality were as much a part of the tempestuous truth and hard action of the 20th century as any single family. It was an immigrant century, and Joseph P. Kennedy sprang from that soil. His father P.J. Kennedy was a prosperous saloon owner and ward boss in the hurly-burly of the Boston Irish. It was the urban century, long dominated by men like John (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald, the machine mayor of Boston whose daughter Rose married Joe and became the Kennedy matriarch. It was the century of the Roaring Twenties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ted Kennedy: Bringing the Myth Down to Earth | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

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