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...expect a certain tense solemnity when an Academy Award--winning director is shooting a film on the life and death of Jesus Christ. On the sound stage of The Passion in Rome's Cinecitta studio, the famed auteur prepares a scene for Maia Morgenstern, the Romanian actress playing the Virgin Mary. She is to enter the abandoned temple where her son has just been removed in chains on his way to Calvary. The director needs an enshrouding silence, so he shouts down some workmen's chatter. Then he coaxes the actress into a long, slow walk that hits the perfect...
...After earning a political-economy degree from Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung University, he was put in charge of arts and cultural affairs for the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party. He took his brief to an extreme, ordering the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress wife to assist in developing the North Korean film industry. When they escaped eight years later, they related that at a first meeting, Kim had asked, "What do you think of my physique? Small as a midget's dropping, aren...
...homes once owned by Chinese actress Liu Xiaoqing, who has been fined for tax evasion, were sold at a government auction...
...FROM HEAVEN. The most versatile actress currently making movies, Julianne Moore’s performance in Far from Heaven ranks among her very best. Her poised, compassionate 50s housewife, Cathy Whitaker, makes Donna Reed look like Medea—until she finds her husband making out with another man and herself falling in love with the African American gardener. As her reputation and family life shatter, Moore’s prim mother strains admirably and pathetically to keep herself going. Her character’s pristine married life behind her, the concluding expression on Moore’s face...
...first-year, Pablo M. Ros ’06 knew that coming to Harvard would take him places. But he had never imagined that one of those places would be at the breast of an Oscar winning actress...