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...book. He showed off his skills yet again with 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel and the first of three films he made with Jude Law. "He was a brilliantly talented writer and director who wrote dialog that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless," Law said in a statement. "He made work feel like fun." Law and Minghella also worked together on another adaptation, 2003's American Civil War epic Cold Mountain and Minghella's last big-screen feature Breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Director Anthony Minghella, 1954-2008 | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...that mean that if we really worked at it, we’d eventually be able to produce good fiction?BJ: I’d be surprised if you couldn’t. There are different levels of success, different levels of aspiration for every writer. But I can speak for myself—I was such a horrible writer when I started. Yet I wanted it so badly, so I would read and write constantly. One of the ways that I think about it is if you enter an old house and you turn on a faucet...

Author: By Hyung W. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15Q With Bret A. Johnston | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...mistakes of action and not mistakes of inaction.” Summers, the third in a series of speakers hosted by Winthrop, was late to the event, and his talk was interrupted twice by his Blackberry. Winthrop House Master Stephen P. Rosen said that he invited Summers to speak because “he has always been committed to the College and always made the effort to visit the Houses.” The former Treasury secretary also devoted much of his prepared speech to a discussion of the country’s current economic turmoil—in particular...

Author: By Elissa F. Jennings, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Encourages Students To Take Risks | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...Hoffman said that many of his colleagues, some who helped to create the Social Studies concentration with him in 1960, did not speak to him for a long time...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Then and Now | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...have never liked him will say this is just another example of him using rhetoric with no action to back it up. As for the swing voters (the real target group) Obama will continue to address these issues in the same manner and "set the record straight," so to speak, continuously until April 22nd. This is not the last we will hear of this from Obama - especially not in Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reaction to the Obama Speech | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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