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...seriously beautiful one) paints a flummoxed smile on the faces of Depp's admirers. This is, after all, a film based on a Disney theme-park attraction--not a cool thrill machine like the Tower of Terror or a camp classic like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride but the staid Pirates of the Caribbean. For this project, Depp put aside the nutsy-greatsy auteurs of his past (Tim Burton, John Waters, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch) to team up with Gore Verbinski, a director whose prime artistic achievement is the masterminding of the Budweiser frog commercials...
...Dignity and energy aren't always easy to reconcile. Hadid has managed a building that's both pumping and poised, heated but also very cool. You can't help thinking of Le Corbusier, one of the founders of 20th century architecture, who once said even modern architecture is too staid. "Jazz is more advanced," he wrote in 1931. "If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle." It's too bad he didn't live to see Hadid's performance in Cincinnati. You know what he would have said? "This joint is jumpin...
...mischievous, always pushing political and theatrical boundaries. That's why his characters still challenge us." Ibsen's characters are usually required to make difficult choices, a theme Attenborough says mirrors society's struggle between its anarchic and restrictive instincts. Lady's Ellida must choose between her staid husband and a wild, mysterious sailor, and Richardson makes the role a journey into madness and back. The Master Builder must choose between a dangerous, young temptress and a safe descent into old age, and Stewart reaches tremulously into the character's insecurities. And Brand's eponymous preacher must choose to sacrifice everything...
...taking an act for the good of an institution that they and I love." (A Times spokeswoman said Raines and Boyd would not comment for this article.) And indeed, the Blair scandal and its aftermath followed a decade in which Sulzberger had modernized and in many ways improved the staid Gray Lady. The son of the previous publisher and scion of a family that has owned the Times since 1896, Sulzberger beefed up the paper's features and cultural coverage, raised its profile nationally and internationally and pushed it to diversify into TV and the Web. Still, says Susan Tifft...
Such big bets on synergy aren't the typical way to provide for the golden years of assistant principals and highway patrol officers. Most state pension funds are staid, blue-chip investors that focus on earning steady returns. But since taking over RSA in the early 1970s, when it was worth $500 million, Bronner, a finance Ph.D., has overseen its growth into a $22.4 billion concern. Under Bronner, RSA has ventured boldly into direct investments intended not only to fund state workers' pensions but also to boost Alabama's lagging economy and image. "I don't want...