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Gibson, who has always been an undervalued actor, does a sturdy job as a grieving dad who still engages in conversations with his dead child; it's almost a letdown when he puts aside his mourning sickness and spirals into melodrama. At 54, Gibson is aging interestingly, with severe creases and sagging flesh. You look at him and think, This guy should play Nixon - another complex man of significant achievement with a debilitating belief that his enemies were bangin' nails into...
Dennis Hopper is not world famous because of his stability and family values. He made Easy Rider; it would be a letdown if he were Mr. Domesticated. But even by Hollywood standards, the unraveling of his fifth marriage is a barn burner. The actor, 73, filed for divorce from the former Victoria Duffy, 42, his wife of 13 years, in December in the midst of his life-or-death battle against metastasized cancer. She countersued in January. Among the milder of her claims was that he was not in his right mind...
...looking for Earthlike planets around other stars - places about the size and temperature of our own planet, where life could in theory be found - it might seem like a letdown to stumble instead on a world bigger than Jupiter, hotter than molten iron and, with a density like that of Styrofoam, the most insubstantial planet ever seen. But when NASA astronomer Bill Borucki stood before a packed audience at this week's meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington to announce the discovery of Styrofoam World, along with four other huge, hot planets, he didn't seem even slightly...
Several BC players had admitted to experiencing a mental letdown in last January’s loss—which came a few days after a defeat of then-No. 1 North Carolina—and vowed to make amends. For much of the first half, their promise came true...
...after placing 11th at NCAA Regionals—crossed the line first for Harvard on Saturday, taking 20th overall in 17:58.5. Olson finished right behind her teammate, posting a 17:59.03 on the 5k course—another good showing in a race that could have been a letdown...