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Best Adapted Screenplay could logically go to any one of its nominees except, perhaps, to the most deserving, the Portuguese-language gangster epic City of God. Capturing the Friedmans and Fog of War seemed locked in a taut two-man battle for Documentary Feature until My Architect quietly reaped enough attention to bestow it front-runner status. The Return of the King will likely sweep up most of the technical awards as Best Picture forerunners are prone to do, but the vivid restoration of 19th century Japan in The Last Samurai will give it a run for its money...
...literature, Knife Edge is a bit of a letdown, sagging with serial indignities where Noughts and Crosses was taut with sheer indignation. For example, Sephy's attempt to cut it as a singer in the noughts' underground music scene feels peripheral (and lyrically, she's no Eminem). But Blackman promises to end her bleak trilogy next year on a note of hope. What a nice, old-fashioned idea - especially...
...came across a truck with this big tarp on it and I offered the driver $70 for it - that's what I had in my pocket - and we took it off the truck and we strung it up between two tall bamboo trees and held it taut with the help of two smaller palm trees and that's how I painted it in the jungle ? " Later he added, "I always tell young painters, 'Paint outside! If it's cold, wear a coat!'" What the crowds loved most was a quality in his booming voice that has largely disappeared...
...honor as a teenager. She stops to laugh at a picture of him in his "bushy" phase, when his hair was pretty much standing on end. Mother and son are close. People often think they're a couple because she looks so young at 42, with her taut muscles and sleek pageboy. "You know what he did while he was with the Army in Germany?" she asks mischievously. "He was dancing, stripping, under the name Scissor...
...Matrix film vanish faster than Carrie-Anne Moss's career, although nothing is likely to stop the last Lord of the Rings when it sweeps across cinemas like an army of ravaging orcs. In between comes Hong Kong's own Infernal Affairs III (IA3), the final chapter of the taut cops-and-triads, cat-and-mouse series that first broke box-office records last December. Can the last Infernal Affairs escape the curse of three...