Word: screens
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...comfortable in front of people without a script,” he said. “I probably should have had a couple of drinks.” Friedman added that she was surprised that Walken was so different from many of his on-screen personas. “He was remarkably normal,” she said. Attendees to the black-tie event filed back into their seats after the ceremony for the opening performance of the Hasty Pudding’s newest show, “Fable Attraction.” Gabrielle M. Domb...
...accent, so we know to take him extra seriously.) This is the first of Romero’s zombie films in which the protagonists are upstaged by their flesh-eating co-stars. Only one character, a dynamite-hurling, deaf Amish man, truly pops off the screen. His scene, although too brief, is one of the most memorable in the film. The structure of the movie also strangely lacks the sense of danger and immediacy that a zombie apocalypse usually warrants. It is essentially a road movie, and yet the destination—the home of the narrating heroine?...
...character unbearable on a fundamental level.This idea of a cynical old lady in the body of a pre-pubescent looking, 16-year-old girl is simply not funny in the context of “Juno.” I’m sure people grinned at the big screen when witty little Juno delivered one blasé retort after another, but while they found it cute, I found it unsettling. At the end of it, I couldn’t help but see Page as just a girl with a cute face and what is probably the most annoying...
...image of the tough broad, surviving and thriving in the Depression through a wily, earthy cynicism. Stanwyck was sensational in grimy melodramas, from Illicit and Night Nurse to the immoral, immortal Baby Face. But she didn't get an Oscar nomination until 1938, when she broke from her normal screen character to play the nobly sacrificing mother in Stella Dallas. Seven years later, when she was a finalist as the rotten femme fatale of Double Indemnity, she lost to Ingrid Bergman, whose husband is trying to kill her in Gaslight. Oscar chose the wanly victimized wife over the fabulously victimizing...
...Catholics were just as far off the Kerry campaign's radar screen. In the fall, a Democratic activist and Catholic in Columbus, Ohio, named Eric McFadden approached the campaign about canvassing heavily Catholic counties in Ohio. Democratic volunteers in those areas had been barraged with questions from voters who had been following the Wafer Watch, and they were desperate for materials that could provide a fuller picture of Kerry's Catholicism. McFadden wanted to deliver flyers that highlighted Kerry's faith and the drop in abortion rates during the 1990s. He approached one of the campaign's Ohio field directors...