Word: willful
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Minghella does not let Ripley off that easily. He devises two characters who fall for the killer and get in his way: a sweet, rich buttinsky (Blanchett) and a gentle homosexual (Davenport). Can he kiss them, or kiss them off, without bumping them off? We won't tell, but we...
Minghella's Ripley is different, less sure of himself, more human, and thus reduced in stature. He lies to Dickie's father when he says he went to Princeton with the boy. He believes not in inspired improvisation, as the book's Ripley does, but in studying hard. In the...
Damon, who like Blanchett and Paltrow was cast in the film before achieving Oscar-night eminence, knows how to emit charm--of the aw-shucks variety in The Rainmaker or streetwise in Good Will Hunting. Here, though, he is a plodder. Pasty white among the bronze gods of Mongibello, striding...
Whether you think the world's coming to an end in the next two weeks or the Y2K bug is a bust, one thing is certain. Come Jan. 1, millions of millennium-happy revelers will be nursing Apocalypse-size hangovers. Despite thousands of years of experience with the effects of...
Don't take Tylenol or other acetaminophen-based drugs for your headache, since they can prove toxic in combination with alcohol (or if you already have liver damage). Avoid taking other pain relievers, such as aspirin or ibuprofen, that will irritate the stomach lining even more, or at the very...