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...very much out of my comfort zone—I was a wolf and then a female swan—and that was a great experience.” Indeed, he has had the courage to play roles ranging from that female swan to Hamlet, and from a manipulative thug to a homesexual man during the Holocaust. He has also acted in student films and improv comedy...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jack Cutmore-Scott ’10 | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...invading Iraq - is bogus. Now, dammit, he'll find what's behind that ruse, even if his life is threatened by renegade Baathists and the American high command. Soon he's a one-man army, going rogue or Rambo, dodging not-so-friendly fire and outwrestling an Iraqi thug. He's Bourne again, in Baghdad. (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Zone: Bourne Takes Baghdad | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

Olyphant's Givens is less rigid and more likable, but his sense of duty also comes from a very personal and dark place. There's a remarkable scene in the pilot in which he uses the threat of his quick draw to talk down a thug with a shotgun pointed at Givens' head - "Can you rack in a load before I put a hole through you?" - which left me with a thorough man crush on him. But then he bashes the goon's face against a steering wheel for a bit of back talk, and for a fleeting second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lone Gunman | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

Either innately or through study, McQueen understood that he was a story: working-class wonder boy, hooligan of haute couture, aesthetic thug. He seemed to enjoy scandalizing journalists - telling them he didn't care for their publication, showing them artwork of something repellent, talking like a longshoreman (he used to scrawl obscenities underneath the linings of coats he made), badmouthing his bosses. The loutishness made his talent seem purer and rawer and more exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander McQueen: Fashion Mourns an Icon | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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