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young indigenous people in remote communities often fall into boredom or worse. I broke my arm when I was about 18 and spent 11 months off work. Before long I was smoking marijuana, sleeping in till midday and couldn't be bothered shaving. I understand how you can get caught in that. And often your role models are in the same situation, and people who work are seen as the weirdos...
...indie stuff (TransAmerica), plus she plays a sympathetic, slightly freakish outsider, in a role requiring lots of makeup. Oscar loves that: see recent awards for Nicole Kidman in The Hours and Theron in Monster. In fact, I've just talked myself into saying she'll snatch the prize from till-now front-runner Reese Witherspoon, whose turn as June Carter Cash is lovely but clearly a secondary role in Walk the Line. Oh, and one other thing: Keira Knightley...
...What I took away from this was less a conclusion about which side stood on the strongest logical foundations than a profound sense that up till then I had reached a position without taking the journey to get there. This sense was heightened when I got married and got pregnant the first time, by which time technology had made the philosopher's hypothetical real: I heard the heartbeat, strained to see the image on the ultrasound, made out the features, like my womb had a window-and grieved at a miscarriage. If life, at this tiny, unimaginable stage...
...Bubble is a big blast at the antiquated way movies get to people. The film is the first of six that Soderbergh plans to make in a deal with the Broadcast.com billionaires Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban. Although commitments to more traditional movies will delay his other HDNet projects till next year, Bubble marks a grand beginning...
...camp, left his Labor party to join Kadima. As the head of his new party, Sharon asked the public for a final four years to make peace. And the public agreed. According to all polls, these two icons of Israeli politics, political rivals turned partners, would have led Israel till 2010. And I, along with many others, felt secure in their hands. We truly believed that the only reason that they both left their political homes of many decades was to attempt a genuine, courageous move. There was a feeling that we were on the verge of better days both...