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Without missing a beat, the modest, soft-spoken Mallozzi openly admits to making an attempt to influence at least one major part of the film. Near the film’s end, one of the teens, Samnang, is accepted to his top-choice school, Brown University. However, due to a mix-up with his financial aid forms, he is unable to afford tuition, and has to decline the acceptance. At the Q&A, Mallozzi has no qualms about telling the audience members that she tried to raise money for the boy’s tuition...
...humble, soft-spoken Kentucky native gave an hour-long reading of selected poems from A Compilation for Owls as well as a sneak peek at his most recent works, then engaged the crowd in an intimate and compelling personal discussion. Despite the din of slamming doors and noisy footsteps penetrating the room from outside, Manning transported the audience with his poems about wilderness into the bleak emotional state of the being forced to endure living “completely alone with no one to talk...
...while Summers had a reputation for being outspoken and temperamental—one of Harvard’s most powerful alums called three search committee members to calm worries about his character—Bollinger was “diplomatic” and “soft-spoken,” St. Antoine says. “Everyone has the sense that he has paid attention to them...
...Niro’s caliber. It has clearly been good training playing against all those hunky-leading man types (Denzel Washington, Sean Penn, and soon Tom Cruise). De Niro, playing against the Travis Bickle-type that first catapulted him to fame, is very convincing as David, a soft-spoken psychologist...
Zana Briski is soft-spoken and rather shy of manner. Willowy of frame, stout of spirit and compassionate of heart, she naturally possesses the qualities shared by the best photojournalists. But even by the standards of that difficult craft, the assignment she imposed on herself a few years ago was formidable. She would live in the brothels of Calcutta, India, and record the lives of their inhabitants, particularly the prostitutes' children...