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...varieties--loud and brash, brainy and bookish, and occasionally a little worrisome. Tommy Ray Franks is none of those: he is quick, funny, very private, ferociously hardworking and, everyone says, a rare leader of soldiers, particularly enlisted troops. He is also, at least in public, the consummate strong and silent type, the good soldier who shuns the limelight in marked contrast to some of his predecessors at Central Command. All this makes Franks, 57, ideally suited as the go-to general for the second Bush Administration. Retired Admiral Archie Clemins, who commanded the Pacific Fleet when Franks was serving...
...inscribed in the minds of the young and old--most important in the memories of a generation of frustrated teenagers searching for role models. The hero would be in shackles, untidy, with no turban and certainly no Kalashnikov, stripped of his glorious, rebellious past. His soft voice would be silent; there would be no more calls to arms through al-Jazeera TV or the Internet. His sad eyes would tell a different story; they would convey a message of surrender. The impact on the many who admired him and awaited his televised messages would be devastation, for none of what...
...finance his own very strange countercultural films. And he wouldn't compromise much even then. "When I first read the Charlie's Angels script, I didn't like it. But [the director] McG said he wanted to hear my ideas. I told him I wanted my character to be silent," he says. It may be the most brilliant solution ever to bad writing...
...comrades sat at their table, smoking cigarettes in silent protest...
...PIANIST. Adrien Brody’s magnetic, largely silent performance in Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama almost compensates for The Pianist’s inconsistent tone and distasteful political sensibilities. Brody’s Wladek Szpilman, who could hardly have picked a worse time and place to be Jewish, transforms from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction...