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...this role hadn't come along, would you still be an actor? Would you still believe in the craft? I probably would still be an actor, because this is what I make a living doing, and I have been making a living with it for so long. To chuck it all in and start something else - it's a bit too late. Would I still believe in the craft? Absolutely, but on my terms, and that's where the difficulty would set in. It would feel like fighting a lost cause. But because I'm so bloody stubborn, I would...
...inmates of Ashecliffe hospital look at the new visitor with stares that might be pleading or warning. U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) has come with his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) to isolated Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to track down an escaped patient from the insane asylum. But that is only one of the enigmas Teddy must unravel. The doctors who run the institution, Cawley (Ben Kingsley) and Naehring (Max von Sydow), often respond to Teddy's questions with strange smiles whose meaning eludes both him and the audience. Teddy too has dark secrets: searing memories...
...gets evidence that sounds like death threats: a man (Jackie Earle Haley, indelible in a fleeting role) tells Teddy there's a grand plot closing in on the marshal, that he's "the rat in a maze"; one woman scribbles the urgent word run on his notepad. His partner Chuck discounts the testimony, saying, "How're you gonna believe a crazy guy?" But Chuck too is under Teddy's suspicion; they'd never met before getting on the island ferry, where Chuck greeted him with a cheerful "Teddy Daniels, the man, the legend." Is Chuck a man or a myth...
...know what was going through the killer whale's head," says Chuck Tompkins, Brancheau's former supervisor. The fact, of course, is that we never can know such things - which is what will always make keeping such beasts in the first place the dangerous business...
...weeks ago, when Reid yanked a bipartisan jobs bill that was hammered out by Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Chuck Grassley, it looked like he was on course to do the same thing he did with health care reform: pull a bipartisan deal and replace it with a partisan bill. But that barely worked when the Democrats had 60 votes - so how could Reid hope to ram something through now, when he's one vote short of stopping a Republican filibuster? (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...