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...have a beautiful imagination," beams Thelma Unite [prounounced YOO-NEE-TAY], eyes shining as a broad smile curls across her face. Even then, her presence in this swank coffee shop in Stanley, a ritzy beachside Hong Kong neighborhood marked by flashy cars and exclusive country clubs, would have been hard to envision amid the squalor and deprivation of her native village in Cagayan province, northern Philippines. But Unite, a self-taught artist and singer-songwriter, knows better than most how closely the two places are linked...
...packed audience of wealthy expatriates, bankers and journalists - as well as other domestic workers - looked on, Thelma and her fellow thespians grappled with the burden of their sacrifice. In previous lives, many were schoolteachers, beauty contestants and union organizers, but now they toil around the clock, rushing after spoiled kids and reckoning with deadbeat husbands. An estimated one-third of the Filipinas working as domestic servants in Hong Kong are university graduates. "What good has that done me?" demands one cast member. "I am just scrubbing toilets...
...Case of Benjamin Button, in which his character ages backward.] Sixty and 20 to be exact. CLOONEY: You're playing 20? Really? DAMON: There's a lot of cgi. [To Pitt and Clooney] Is it true that you were the last two actors up for the hitchhiker role in Thelma & Louise? CLOONEY: It was pretty embarrassing. They brought Brad and me in, and they just made us take our shirts off and stand there for a while, and then they picked Brad. PITT: That is absolutely not true...
...know each other at that point? CLOONEY: I knew him afterward. DAMON: "Hey, that's the f___ing guy that took my job!" CLOONEY: My friends said, "You want to see Thelma & Louise?" And I'm like, "F___ Thelma & Louise!" But it was fairly obvious when you saw the movie why I didn't get it, 'cause Brad just knocked it out of the park. PITT: Aw, they were just grooming you for Batman...
...Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The April 20 arts article "Scorsese's Editor Scores Coolidge Award" incorrectly stated that director Martin Scorsese and film editor Thelma Schoonmaker's first collaboration was the 1980 movie "Raging Bull." In fact, the duo first worked together on the 1968 film "Who's That Knocking at My Door...