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...gives pungent quirks to each of Julie?s victims: the wolf (Claude Rich) who has recorded the sound of his girlfriend crossing her silk-stockinged legs; the lonely loser (Michel Bouquet) who says he won?t touch Julie, but wants to be asked; the pompous politician (Michel Lonsdale) who suggests they have sex so that ?You can say, ?For one hour he forgot about France and gave himself to me??; the skirt-chasing artist (Charles Denner) who is almost too charming to kill. But not quite. (Woolrich minutiae: Lonsdale?s son is called Cookie - the same name Ricki Lake gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Fear Noir | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...midst of the 1998 Lewinsky sex scandal, Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a distinguished classics professor at a small Massachusetts liberal arts college, embroils himself in a microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy. One chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and the death of his wife. Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. A self-made man in every sense of the word, Silk’s success in life embodies a severely warped version...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Listings, Dec. 12-18 | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...midst of the 1998 Lewinsky sex scandal, Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a distinguished classics professor at a small Massachusetts liberal arts college, embroils himself in a microcosm of similar scandal and tragedy. One chance comment in class provokes an accusation of racism that culminates in his resignation and the death of his wife. Based on the novel by Philip Roth, The Human Stain follows Silk through four major stages of self-identification: anger, denial, acceptance and confession. A self-made man in every sense of the word, Silk’s success in life embodies a severely warped version...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Listings, Dec. 5-11 | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...will pass through a lobby covered by a 9-m-high glass dome-enabling natural daylight to flood inside-before encountering an environment with enough untrammeled opulence to embarrass a Saudi prince. Travertine stone has been lavishly used throughout the building, underscoring a design palette of soaring columns, heavy silk, walnut-backed banquettes and granite urns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Park Life | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...Affable and self-effacing, Matsui certainly has the quickest smile east of Yokohama. On this brisk, autumn afternoon in downtown Tokyo, he wears it with a black velvet blazer, a black silk shirt and the gold peace medallion his wife, Mio, gave him in October for his 28th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Matsui Steps Up | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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