Word: bolting
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...missed opportunity: "For despite the recent box-office disappointment, Sam Spiegel believed that Marlon would be an ideal Lawrence of Arabia, made his an offer, and sent him Robert Bolt's vivid scenario. To Peter O'Toole's undying gratitude, Marlon responded: 'I'll be damned if I'll spend two years of my life out in the desert on some f-----g camel...
...Even when parents return, the sting of abandonment can linger. In a dimly lit living room in suburban Manila, Rebecca Lucero watches her teenage son, John Patrick, bolt past and pound up the stairs. Lucero says he is a good kid. He does well in school. But, she adds, "I feel uncomfortable around him." She gave birth to her son, now 18, when she was working at a Holiday Inn in Abu Dhabi. She took him back to Manila to live with her mother when he was 3 months old, and left him there for 11 years while she continued...
...from friendly stranger to source of family humiliation and finally to community savior - the Yankee of the pride. (The basic conceit, of an animal reared in showbiz captivity and forced to use his inappropriate skills to survive on the outside, will also be on display in the Disney cartoon Bolt, opening in two weeks.) Marty finds that he looks exactly like all the other zebras on the veldt, or at least he does to Alex - a critique of racial stereotyping that the movie doesn't push too hard. Gloria flirts with a studly hippo (voiced by a Barry White-esque...
...performance was how bracingly human it is. As the rebellious counselor, Langella is a man of stoic determination, but not without moments of fear, doubt, temper and smugness; his moral courage seems cobbled out of human reason and resolve rather than handed down from God. And if Robert Bolt's 1960 play looks a bit square today, with its period setting and easy-to-follow moral outline, it's beautifully written, clearly argued and, with a lot of help from Langella's magnetic performance, undeniably stirring...
...swimming pool." But Suitor mastered the technique, and during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he cemented his place atop jetpack history: "He swooped out over the field, half-bird, half-man. So many cameras clicked at once that it felt like an unnatural bolt of lightning...