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...torn. Should he decline and keep building a steady career of small parts in big films (such as Angelina Jolie's lover-rival in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, a Mossad agent in Munich) and big parts in small films (Layer Cake's nice-guy coke dealer, Ted Hughes in Sylvia)? Or should he accept and become forever the man who was Bond? He turned to Pierce Brosnan, four-time veteran of Her Majesty's Secret Service, for advice. "Go for it," Brosnan told him. "It's a blast...
...published her first book, “Dream Barker,” which received the Yale Younger Poets Prize, an award given to the most promising young American poet.Valentine says works by Elizabeth Bishop and “confessional poets” such as Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath influenced her early writings. But after her first collection, she says she began to “develop a voice of [her] own.”During the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, Valentine says she tried to write anti-war poems, but always felt like...
...sauntering unawares toward the stun gun; once he sees the ugly light, he disappears from the film. The teenage Amber (Ashley Johnson), who grows from a Mickey's countergirl to an animal-rights activist, is just another couple of chapter headings for the charnel issues being raised. Same with Sylvia (Maria Full of Grace's Catalina Sandino Moreno), one of the horribly exploited immigrants. Even someone (like me) who might agree with every political point in the film will get exasperated with the obviousness of the portrayals, the stodginess of the drama, the lame mise...
...Those who have are frustrated by the uncertainty - both in their personal lives and the life of the city. There is a litany of daily annoyances, from crumbling streets to piles of flood-damaged cars that have yet to be hauled away, not to mention miles of abandoned housing. Sylvia Barabino, who lived in heavily flooded New Orleans East, drove in from Baton Rouge where she has been living since Katrina to vote. Her home is uninhabitable and the elementary school where she taught in the Lower Ninth Ward has not reopened. "This particular race is going to determine what...
...Sylvia Barabino, like a lot of New Orleans voters, will be eagerly watching. "It's been eight months, and I don't see nothing going on in the Ninth Ward or the Lower Ninth Ward," she said. "And that's my biggest concern. I'm ready to come home...