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...Fiedler maintains that sources should not be left to wonder if their conversations might be recorded without their knowledge by other reporters in the future. ?We can't have people wondering whether we are ethical most of the time,? he says. ?We expect people to be ethical in their dealings all of the time. It is that strict and that rigid. That's the conclusion I kept coming back to (that) night, and that's why a suspension wasn't right. We have to be absolutely clear when it came to an issue of trust - we can only wish this...
...intones the Angelus honoring the Incarnation. And then, after precisely 20 minutes, Benedict works the crowd a bit and heads back indoors to ... what? A first, tone-setting encyclical? The book whose existence is established but whose topic is not? The reorganization of the papal bureaucracy? People wonder...
Terry Gilliam is like the Grimm brothers: he knows all the tricks of the movie fantast's trade, but what he's after is magic. He wants to make pictures that cast spells, that turn today's jaded viewer back into a kid, gawking with wonder. He hopes The Brothers Grimm, which opens Aug. 26, is one of those mesmerizing experiences: "It may not be the deepest film I ever made, but I do think there's real enchantment...
Some of Gilliam's films have been hits: Time Bandits, The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys (his biggest earner, grossing nearly $169 million on a $30 million budget). Yet the zealot's rep sticks to him and makes potential backers wonder, What catastrophe will befall him this time...
...Python style. It alternates the drollery of Jonathan Pryce's French villain (when Will charges, "You killed my friends," Pryce purrs, "I only wish you had more") with the labored buffoonery of Peter Stormare's Italian henchman. But in the enchanted forest, Grimm's sense of wonder is spellbinding--a reminder that Gilliam is as much shaman as showman. His reckless, robust imagination leaves Hollywood's prime confectors of fantasy light-years behind...