Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soon he was making $50 a week and, best of all, "Boom, I had a card in my wallet that said I am a professional actor." He and his first wife Samantha went to New York City for the requisite starving-actor years; they had a baby and some thin patches. "It was a year and a half of horrible scary days," he recalls...
...THIN RED LINE Two great World War II epics in a year, and so different. This one, the first film directed by Terrence Malick since the 1978 Days of Heaven, imagines the Guadalcanal battle as a standoff between man at his most frantic and nature at its most rapturous. In one embracing vision, Malick gives you Eden and the Fall. Welcome back, Terry...
...TITAN: THE LIFE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR. The man who made his surname synonymous with limitless riches was reviled and caricatured during his life, and posterity has not been too much kinder. Biographer Ron Chernow's account portrays both the thin-lipped skinflint and the philanthropist who gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to worthy enterprises. Monopolies seem to be back in vogue. Wherever he is now, the old man must be smiling...
...Which image of Sacajawea did I prefer? No. 14, where she looks dark and almost manly, with a large nose and braided hair? Or No. 98, where her features are duller and softer, with her baby on her back? And what about No. 100, where we see her whole, thin figure, one arm pointing to the west, mountains in the background...
...agreed to be photographed (until now) in 20 years. Malick has made only two films, Badlands and Days of Heaven, but his reputation has grown in inverse proportion to his output, enabling him to draw Sean Penn, John Travolta, George Clooney and Woody Harrelson to Australia to shoot The Thin Red Line, due out at Christmas, about the 1942 battle for Guadalcanal. Look for Jean-Claude Van Damme in a Thomas Pynchon-scripted vehicle next summer...