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...looks or something deeper within, to carry off a role that would look like mannered showboating by anyone else. Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr. have that talent, and so does Crispin Glover, although he doesn't seem capable of swinging into normalcy. It's too early to tell what Redmayne's (The Good Shepherd, The Other Boleyn Girl) full range is, but he's definitely got the gift of riveting strangeness. You start out thinking his Gordy is the village idiot; then, as this ghostly pale, freckled redhead goes on and on about being Native American, you decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yellow Handkerchief: An Oddly Enticing Road Trip | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...Tell me about the part you wrote for Ralph Fiennes. It was a late addition to what was basically the final draft, because we needed him to trigger the financing because of his stature and name recognition. I wrote a part where he plays a diplomat, and he hated it and told me as much, in a very nice way - that there was no way he was going to do that part. The film literally stopped being feasible at that moment. He liked the rest of the movie, but that didn't do me any good, because he wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Week: Hurt Locker Writer Mark Boal | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...great." Then she'll make fun of one of her co-winners for not showing enough excitement onstage, since he's British. And when the guy in the booth starts to play music to drown her out, she'll call him out by name and union local number and tell him he can't do this to a fellow sound mixer. Then, even though I told her not to about 20 times, I'm pretty sure she'll thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Oscar Thank You Speech (for Sound Mixing) | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...types of films I choose to produce are a little more complex and meaningful, not to make myself sound grandiose or anything. I definitely like to work on films that tell more complex human stories. Usually films that have some sort of social message to them, nothing overtly propaganda, but talking about the real human condition...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Mynette A. Louie ’97 | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...issues as health care and climate change, only to be left exposed as the measures have been shredded or buried altogether in the procedural thicket of the Senate. So it's no surprise that the inclination of House Democrats toward this most perilous vote of all has been to tell the Senate: You go first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Reform: Can the Democrats Cross the Finish Line? | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

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