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...disagreeable. His first instinct is to clarify and understand the relevant facts in addressing an issue and then to think through the consequences from a variety of vantage points. Everyone whom I knew liked him, in part because they liked his clarity and judgment, in part because of his wit and humor, in part because he is one of those people who are genuinely likeable...
...There ain't nothin' to it but to do it." Armed with this bromide, an easy wit and $100,000, Robert Townsend made a movie. Suddenly the actor (A Soldier's Story) was his own producer, director and coauthor. The film might be his own life too. Bobby Taylor (Townsend) works days at a hot-dog stand while enduring auditions with casting directors who want every black actor to be Eddie Murphy or Super Dude or "just a little more . . . black?" He secures the title role in a blaxploitation epic called Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge, only to chuck...
...Thailand in 1983. As one of those functionaries who mainly sit around waiting for the screw-ups to be corrected, Gray used his time to work up a funny monologue in which his experiences, giddily exaggerated, commented on the folly and wastefulness of human enterprise. Further, Gray had the wit not to waste his routine in living rooms. He staged his chat -- just the speaker seated at his desk, a map behind him -- in theaters across the U.S. Now Director Jonathan Demme has filmed it in a manner matching Gray's; it is expert in an innocent- seeming...
...wit accompanies Neill in a round of press interviews before Little Fish's Sept. 8 Australian release. Elegantly attired in tailored jacket, crisp shirt and jeans, the actor enters the hotel foyer wearing what look like two spare tires on his feet - "they're my clown shoes," he says. In fact, they're his farm boots, which bear the U.S. brand name of Providence. An apt choice, since Neill is the most accidental of actors. It was while directing documentaries for the New Zealand National Film Unit that he was asked by director Gillian Armstrong to audition for My Brilliant...
...civil judgment against a vigilante leader who allegedly threatened them with a gun when he caught them sneaking into the U.S. in March 2003. The immigrants said the ordeal left them with posttraumatic stress, a condition that seems to be spreading fast on the Mexico-U.S. boundary. To wit: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano declared a state of emergency last week because, she said, "the Federal Government has failed" to secure the border. Three days earlier, fellow Democratic Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico took the same step, which allows states to release funds for fighting illegal immigration and drug...