Word: characterizations
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Racial profiling is a practice clearly racist in character. Police departments who tacitly condone racial profiling stop minorities far out of proportion to other drivers for no reason other than the color of their skin. The practice has become knows as "driving while black or brown," the only charge of...
Having just started previews for a May 18 off-Broadway opening, Kaufman and company are still trying to pare down the play's bulky three-hour length. But the work's passion and power are clearly in evidence. On a stage populated mainly by wooden chairs and tables, eight actors...
The idea for Gladiator began in the '70s when screenwriter David Franzoni read Daniel P. Mannix's Those About to Die, a briskly lurid history of the Roman games. "It really made a connection between that era and ours," Franzoni says, "about how sports heroes are slavishly worshiped by their...
Casting the film, Scott tested Jude Law for Commodus but went with Phoenix, an odd, inspired choice: beneath the villain's sliminess is an unloved child with vivid plans for vengeance. Scott's choice of Nielsen also was resisted, but the Danish beauty brings a regal presence to the film...
Coleman Silk is not a character who invites easy sympathy. But by the time Roth finishes with him, pity is not out of the question. Roth's veteran mouthpiece, Nathan Zuckerman, tells Silk's story from the perspective of 1998. The nation is blanketed by the Clinton-Lewinsky dalliance, and...