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...Enter Veronica Guerin, a resourceful, career-driven journalist with a conscience...
Director Joel Schumacher’s latest movie, Veronica Guerin, is based upon on the life of the Sunday Independent reporter of the same name, a journalist whose investigations proved vital in the war against drugs in Dublin...
...Veronica Guerin succeeds in drawing the audience into the story precisely because it focuses so much on the protagonist. Cate Blanchett’s resplendent performance as Guerin seethes with passion and intensity in every scene, conveying with heart-wrenching emotion both Guerin’s incredible dedication and her fear in the midst of constant death threats by powerful drug-traffickers. It is Blanchett’s skillful portrayal of Guerin which compensates for certain weaknesses in direction, making the movie one worth the price of an admission ticket...
...Being a Cantonese dyslexic in Hong Kong can be a nightmare and very challenging for the kids, their parents and teachers. As the mother of one of these children, I greatly appreciated the information in your article. More research in this area is certainly needed. Veronica Wai Hong Kong...
...working with her. The late 1980s and early '90s proved promising as a whole class of black models was able to thrive. Naomi Campbell was among the first models of any race to be anointed a "supermodel," and African-American models Beverly Peele, Karen Alexander, Tyra Banks and Veronica Webb all worked consistently. In 1992 Webb became the first black model to win a major cosmetics contract when she was signed by Revlon, but she faced many of the same hurdles as Iman. "There was never the possibility that there'd be someone on a shoot who looked like...