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...dusty historical narrative, resisting stuffy reconstruction in favor of dreamily imaginative detail. Though ostensibly starring Jason Schwartzman in a delightfully dead-pan turn as the blundering Louis XVI, and the luminous, ethereal, and well cast Kirsten Dunst (reuniting with the director after their collaboration on “The Virgin Suicides”), special mention must be given to the film’s unbilled supporting standouts: Versailles itself and a $40 million production budget chiefly represented by mountains of pastries, millions of powdered wigs, miles of elaborately embroidered silk, and of course enough painted, prancing ponies to mobilize...
Talk about method acting. Just three months after wrapping her role as the pregnant unwed teenage Virgin Mary in Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story, due out in December, unwed teenage KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES, 16, is pregnant. No, this isn't the Second Coming; the New Zealander best known for her Oscar-nominated performance in 2002's Whale Rider is bearing the offspring of her boyfriend of three years, Bradley Hull, 19. After carrying the Son of God in her belly throughout 1st century Israel, Keisha should have no trouble with a regular pregnancy. And if she wants to skip...
...your Greek on with the friendly folk of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary...
...Among the better known industry pioneers is British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson who is moving the SpaceShipOne concept forward in a company called Virgin Galactic with plans to manufacture enough similar crafts to begin commercial operations from New Mexico in a few years. And after picking up the pieces from Monday's launch, UP Aerospace has scheduled nine more flights over the next year...
Unlike “Prep,” Curtis Sittenfeld’s decent but hackneyed portrayal of those ruthless pre-college years, “Special Topics” minimizes the ‘to be or not to be’ virgin dilemmas and queen bee versus wannabe showdowns. While that approach worked for the movie “Mean Girls,” the intellectually inclined will relish Pessl’s knack for language, unconventional arrangement, and substantial academic references...