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...Coca-Cola, their product," he says, his fingers fidgeting with anything he can find--a pencil, his scraggly beard, his beat-up old Samsung phone, the buttons on his army-style coat. "I hadn't figured out properly how to act, and all of a sudden I was being thrown into these lead roles. I didn't have the black room and the black pajamas to prance around making mistakes in private. All my mistakes are on the screen." Most of all, Ledger says, he felt he was undeserving. "I wanted to scrub it all away and start again...
...PERFORM AT THE OPERA HOUSE SEVEN MONTHS LATER. HOW WAS THAT? I felt if I didn't go back, the experience would loom larger in my memory, and I needed to step up to the plate. It is a lot like getting back on a horse that has thrown you. But Pavarotti was booed there, and he never went back. [Opera at La Scala] is a little bit like a sports event, with fans shouting at their teams...
...That opportunity came when Harvard forced Yale to punt on its opening drive, and Dawson made up for his early miscue. Except for O’Hagan’s sneak on a fourth-and-one and an incomplete pass thrown by the quarterback, Dawson ran or caught a pass on every Crimson play during the scoring drive...
...have to do it right now and I can't tell you what it is." Gaghan walked out of the airport and got into a car with a stranger. As they drove, he was stripped of his backpack, pens and belt, and was blindfolded, hooded and thrown into the back of another car. "There was a bad 10 minutes in there where I'm thinking, 'You are really an idiot,'" he says. "'You're like Mr. Magoo. You just wander over to the Middle East and, literally, within the first 20 minutes get kidnapped and beheaded. World record...
...They’re a very enterprising group of students, and it’s amazing that they’ve thrown something together of this nature for the Harvard-Yale weekend,” Haan said. “It’s great to have things that students are aware of and invited...