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...film, he now admits, was also a bit sluggish at times. "The first 40 minutes of the first Harry Potter film were introductions." Now that his Harry has made a good first impression, Columbus doesn't have to be so careful and polite. And on Nov. 15, when the titular wizard returns in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, based on the second novel in J.K. Rowling's blockbuster series, fans will see a bolder, faster-paced movie - and, to put it bluntly, a much better one. "The most important thing to tell everyone is that it's more...
...titular "one hundred demons" are actually seventeen vignettes from the author's life, mostly from her childhood. Treating the book as something of a Zen exercise, Barry has claimed that, with no determined direction, each piece began as a word or phrase on a notecard. The somewhat random subjects of each story bear this out: Dancing, Hate, San Francisco, Dogs, Girlness, etc. "Dancing," for instance, tells of Barry's childhood enthusiasm for hula dancing. With fantastic powers of memory (or perhaps imagination) Barry recreates the near-hallucinatory, intensely-observed world of childhood. The hula teacher is a "middle-aged white...
...known around studios as "that mad, bad, dangerous girl who takes her clothes off and weeps a lot." But now Hollywood is taking a chance on that girl. In Red Dragon, Watson gives a heart-breaking performance as Reba, a young blind woman who seduces Ralph Fiennes' titular madman so thoroughly that he thinks twice about biting off her fingers. Director Brett Ratner offered her the role because he was impressed with her work in Breaking the Waves. But Watson also felt that Red Dragon was just mad, bad and dangerous enough for her. "If you're going...
...slowly recovering from his time in one of the Russian "filtration camps" - brutal improvised prisons where, human rights groups say, torture, abuse and extrajudicial killings are common. Funding for Marsho came in part through Akhmed Zakayev, before the war a theater director and now principal deputy to the guerrillas' titular leader, Aslan Maskhadov. Other money, Mazayev says, came from charities in Turkey, which has been sympathetic to the Chechen cause. If all goes well the film will premiere in Tbilisi in the fall. Vanessa Redgrave, the Oscar-winning actress and political activist, has said that she will try to attend...
...another thing that some readers may have a problem with. All four stories in "Summer Blonde" focus on rather negative people's inability to relate to others. "Alter Ego" tells of a young writer who begins neglecting his girlfriend for the sake of an even younger fan. In the titular tale, a lonely nerd fixates on a card shop girl who cheats on her boyfriend. Lastly, "Bomb Scare" gets right to the heart of being socially irrelevent in high-school. Each story reveals the secret life of the sad and alienated. If anything, the book can be criticized...