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Toward the start of his new film The Constant Gardener, Ralph Fiennes, as Justin Quayle, a British diplomat stationed in Kenya, is told that his young wife Tessa may have been killed while on a research trip with another man. As the camera holds on him, searching for a reaction, Fiennes doesn't conjure up a rage or a gasp. He doesn't gush a stream of tears or obscenities. He moves hardly at all. Yet alert viewers will see his pale face turn a shade ashen. They will watch his spirit sink as he struggles to retain propriety. Somehow...
That roiling, starving continent at first seems a backdrop to familiar Le Carré chicanery. Justin has brought his bride Tessa, a fierce do-gooder, to Kenya, where he resumes his job in the embassy and she goes off crusading--to what end, Justin knows not. After her death, he must confront the forces that ended her life and are threatening his. That's when he discovers how genial manners can conceal hearts of darkness...
...legitimate problem if it’s 11:30 on a Friday night, and you’re not 21 and you don’t want to be in a room party, there’s nothing for you to do,” says Tessa C. Petrich ’07, who sits on the Pub Night Commission...
...We’re not allowed to have open containers of alcohol, due to licensing and insurance purposes,” says Executive Producer Tessa C. Petrich ’07. “However, I couldn’t tell you what they managed to sneak backstage…is that fair...
Some proceeds from the show will go to the Center for Teen Empowerment, a Boston-based program that fosters relationships between students and adults to mobilize change in urban communities, according to Tessa C. Petrich ’07, one of the show’s executive producers...