Word: mysticism
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...life, no other great figure in the second half of the 20th century seemed to inhabit his role so utterly--yet in so many different ways. There was the itinerant evangelist with the lit-from-within smile, conducting his never-ending crusade. There was the mystic who, as an observer noted, "makes decisions on his knees." There was the subtle geopolitician who refuted Stalin's famous sneer "How many divisions has the Pope?" at the expense of the dictator's heirs. The moral philosopher who lectured at Harvard. And, finally, the suffering servant. "He was a thoroughly, radically committed Christian...
...Robbins will brush off their acerbic bons mots with aplomb, even firing back a few choice barbs of his own without missing a beat—and after winning an Oscar and a Golden Globe last year for his supporting turn in Mystic River, mounting a stage to receive a gilded statuette must...
...Producer] Al Ruddy gave me the book, Rope Burns, four years ago and said he had been talking with F.X. Toole, who'd written these great stories set in and around boxing. So I read them and particularly liked Million Dollar Baby. I thought it would be relatively simple. Mystic River had done reasonably well. So I went to Warner Bros., and they said, "We don't think boxing movies are really that commercial now," and I said, "Well, I don't quite see this as a boxing movie." I said it was a love story between a surrogate father...
FINALLY, HOW DO YOU HANDLE OSCARS? I MEAN YOU'VE BEEN THERE A FEW TIMES. You go. Sometimes you have the goods. With Unforgiven, we were kind of favored and we prevailed, at least as Best Picture, the nicest one to have. And then last year [with Mystic River] we got Hobbitized. Now, here I am back the second year in a row. It's almost like the kid won't go away. Maybe they'll give it to him just...
...statement earlier this month, Robbins—who took home an Oscar last year for his supporting role in Mystic River—called receiving the Pudding’s prize “an experience of exaltation rivaled only by the birth of one’s children, being named the new Dalai Lama, or by being found not guilty on all charges...