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...night the Nazi soldiers came to his parents' house in their Polish village. Jakob, then seven, was still small enough to fit into the hiding place behind a wall, but his sister Bella, 15, was not. The aging poet remembers what happened next with understated anguish: "The burst door. Wood ripped from hinges, cracking like ice under the shouts. Noises never heard before, torn from my father's mouth. Then silence. My mother had been sewing a button on my shirt. She kept her buttons in a chipped saucer. I heard the rim of the saucer in circles...
...woven of two strands, one of them boldly colored, the other rather gray and recessive. Besides Scissorhands, the first skein includes Ed Wood, Depp's serenely obsessive portrait of the grade-Z moviemaker and cross-dresser with a special affection for angora sweaters; Don Juan De Marco, where he plays a schizophrenic who escapes from dismal reality by impersonating, with sinuous delicacy, an enviably proficient Latin lover; and Benny & Joon, in which he's an illiterate and nearly speechless waif with a genius for mime. What is perhaps most striking about these characterizations is their fundamental sobriety, disciplined intensity...
...Billy Bob...]...was in Dead Man, with Johnny Depp Johnny Depp was in Ed Wood, with Patricia Arquette Patricia Arquette was in Beyond Rangoon, with Frances McDormand...
...feature directorial debut, Digging to China. "Being my first time," says Hutton, "it was great working with an actor who had just directed." (Bacon directed Losing Chase in 1996.) In China, Bacon plays a mentally disabled man who forms an odd friendship with a girl played by EVAN WOOD. He gives Hutton high marks--but future directors beware. "I'm less tolerant of directors than I used to be," he says. "I now know that it's hard, yeah, but it's possible to get through the day without being...
...professor wants only those students in his or her classroom who are in a position to benefit from the course and contribute to productive class discussion. They seek to exclude all those who are under-prepared and under-qualified. They understandably don't want dead wood floating in their educational sea. It is not the cruel truth that shopping period is often an exercise in exclusion and disappointment that needs to be challenged. It is the methods of exclusion, which seem to me almost arbitrary and whimsical, that need to be questioned...