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...changed by audience response before the audience saw it. "Personally, I think it's great," says Jackson. "They saved the movie." When the actor first signed on, he and Ellis agreed that people who like the title are probably not easily offended. But when Jackson arrived for shooting, the script had been neutered to garner a PG-13 rating. "They restricted my cursing and restricted the gore," he says. "It was kind of a waste of time...
...those who are interested, however, “The Sentinel” is pretty solid entertainment. The script, though unsurprising, does include a few nice touches—Garrison is ostensibly one of the agents that took a bullet for Reagan in 1981. But as a whole, it is no improvement over screenwriter George Nolfi’s last attempt at hipping up an old genre, “Ocean?...
...subtle clue of Benedict's approach was written last week into the Good Friday script for the Way of the Cross ceremony, an evening event at the Coliseum reintroduced by John Paul and an annual source of powerful television images and photography. The new Pope would certainly not do away with the live coverage of the "Via Crucis," but would make one change: the actors who read the meditations along the stations would not be stars, and would not even have their faces shown on television. Benedict wanted nothing distracting the faithful from the story and meaning of the Passion...
...fast design is that the President will be spending more time than he had planned to in the run-up to his re-election campaign convincing Americans that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are truly finished. Domestic initiatives are being squeezed out of the Bush script by the duration and cost of the two overseas rebuilding efforts...
...Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre, hours before receiving the Coolidge award. “That’s how I rationalized it, anyway.” According to Altman, those off-key imperfections color the film: “I was looking for mistakes to improve the script,” he explains. The climax of a month-long Streep celebration, Streep joined fellow actors John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline, and director Robert Altman after a preview screening of the film, to discuss both the craft and the award, which honors original and challenging film making...