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...advertised as a balls-out action movie; it seems like an unofficial sequel to Gladiator with cannonballs instead of lions. The truth is, although it stars Russell Crowe as a British sea captain named Lucky Jack Aubrey, it is as close to Gladiator as The Mask was to The Truman Show...
...action sequences has many casualties that, without getting too gory, are explicitly shown; even some beloved characters are not spared. When Maturin and Aubrey have to make tough decisions, you feel their pain and the confusion, pain and anger of their crewmen. Between Master and Commander, The Truman Show and Witness, Peter Weir has proven himself to be one of the smartest populist directors working today...
Peter Weir, who directed Harrison Ford in Witness and The Mosquito Coast, and Jim Carrey in The Truman Show, admits to being fascinated and a bit frustrated by his leading man: "One evening when we'd just had a spectacular week of dailies, I looked over at him and said, 'How do you do it?' And he shot back, 'I don't know. How do you?' That's about as deep as we got. I think I knew Jack Aubrey better than I knew Russell Crowe...
...championed the works of Philip Roth and Jack Kerouac. As a participatory journalist, he pitched to Willie Mays and tried out for the Detroit Lions, an experience he described in Paper Lion, among the finest sports books ever written. Plimpton also guest-starred on The Simpsons, danced at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball and witnessed the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Though he loved to play the underdog, he never lost his dignity or his twinkly-eyed patrician charm. --By Lev Grossman
...Harry S Truman relied on Dunlop to help with steel prices; Dwight D. Eisenhower called on him to end a rail crisis; and John F. Kennedy asked him to assist in preventing labor disputes at missile construction sites. Richard Nixon sought his advice on wage and price guidelines...