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Michael Sheen has been leading a double life. The Welsh actor has built his aboveground rep impersonating glad-handing Brit public figures: Tony Blair in The Deal and The Queen, David Frost in Frost/Nixon. Simultaneously, and subterraneanly, he's also been a wolf-man: Lucian, the half-breed in the Underworld thrillers, whose first two installments, from 2003 and 2006, grossed about $200 million worldwide. It's entirely possible that no single moviegoer has seen both the smooth Sheen and the hairy Sheen - the one in the Savile Row suits and the one who's spent enough time...
...night. He then grows somber and intones: “I’m not like other guys.” This is surely one of history’s greatest understatements. The poor girl dismisses Michael’s warning (bad move), and Michael transforms into a gruesome wolf-man before her very eyes. Then, surprise! This turns out to be a movie that Michael and his date are watching. Then, double surprise! It was actually all a dream! How refreshingly über-meta. How astoundingly moronic.At the blissful end of this travesty, I have nothing but sympathy...
Stephen Rea, a veteran of Jordan's Angel (about the IRA) and The Company of Wolves (in which he played a seductive wolf-man) who is now starring on Broadway as a Middle East hostage in Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, has long tangled with questions of personal and national identity. He is an Irish Protestant; his Irish Catholic wife, Delours Price, was an IRA hunger striker convicted of car bombings 20 years ago. "The whole nature of my country has been in question," he says. "If you use an army to solve a problem -- the British army...
...Meaning in Resnais's film emerges only gradually, slipping out from amidst the debates about fate and free will, imagination and reality, to taunt and finally elude us. In the beginning of the film there is only the blue-green eeriness of the forest, where a man shoots a wolf-man, and then a tight-lipped Dirk Bogarde, as Langham's son Claude, coldly enunciating from the bowels of a courtroom the words which ironically frame the film: "Surely the facts are not in dispute." Resnais's theme is in part the blurring of perception and reality, in part...
Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib...