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...threatened to murder them and, that very night, blow up St. Peter's Square with a vial of antimatter stolen from a Geneva research lab. In Rome by sundown, Langdon finds adversaries in a stern Cardinal (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and the head of the Vatican's Swiss Guards (Stellan Skarsgard), and two allies in a passionate young Vatican priest (Ewan McGregor) and a scientist (Ayalet Zurer) from the antimatter lab. The meat of the story occupies about five hours that evening, as Langdon rushes from one holy site to another, trying to save lives and solve the big riddle...
...right, 22). Sophie, who doesn't know who her father is, has found Donna's diary from the summer she got pregnant. Her dad must be one of the three men mentioned in the diary. Sophie lures them all to the island--Sam (Pierce Brosnan, 55), Bill (Stellan Skarsgard, 57) and Harry (Colin Firth, the baby at 47). They arrive the day before the wedding, and intrigue ensues. Who's the real father? Will Donna be able to cope with three thorny reminders of her wild youth? And how will the movie shoehorn such Abba hits as Waterloo and Money...
...what does that have to do with the eponymous Francisco de Goya (Stellan Skarsgard), that greatest of Spanish painters and precursor of modernism? Very little, as it turns out. He painted Ines, and her wealthy father was one of his patrons. But in Goya's Ghosts he is pretty much what he was in life - the politically temporizing foreground observer of Ines' anguish, which is symbolic, in its way, of Spain's anguish as the 18th Century turned into the 19th, its royal family deposed by the bloodily invading French, who were, in turn, defeated by the British. Mostly...
Incarnating amiability with an undercoat of evil can be a benison to an actor. Unfortunately for them, Dogville's old pros (including Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, Harriet Andersson, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson and Blair Brown) have only attitudes, not characters, to play, and these are as flat as the lines on the floor. It's not a pretty sight: gifted actors with big ambitions and nothing purposeful to do. Only two things keep one's eyes on the screen: the spectacle of the gorgeous Kidman soldiering on as Grace's regality is defiled, and the suspicion that this...
...apparent bid to remedy the shortage of shrill outrage in this country, everybody has suddenly decided to get mad at actresses for smoking. At a press conference in Cannes, NICOLE KIDMAN bummed a cigarette from co-star Stellan Skarsgaard and lit up, prompting criticism from antismoking groups. Meanwhile, Fox 5 News in New York City "caught" BRITNEY SPEARS smoking at a Manhattan club; a group called Smoke Free Movies ran a full-page ad in the New York Times screeching at JULIA ROBERTS to stop smoking onscreen; and earlier this month there was a kerfuffle when snapshots of a topless...