Word: characterized
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His directing style can be equally unconventional. While his camera is rolling, Crowe often shouts out impromptu lines to his actors and plays music on the set to generate emotion, later deleting the extraneous noise from the sound track. (Joni Mitchell's River, for example, was a sure way to...
Crowe, who spells her name Penny in his screenplay, says he wrote the character as "a mythical creature"--part the real Lane and a couple of other groupies, part Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and part Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. He intended to cast Sarah Polley, a...
But mostly, Thomas' telling of the story is clear eyed, richly detailed and riveting, mainly because of his shrewd feelings for the nuances of Kennedy's character and internal conflicts. In late May 1968, during the California primary campaign, Kennedy attended a party at the Malibu beach house of director...
In our "it's all about me" culture, committed relationships are seen as a dangerous thing. Marriage becomes a scapegoat for our dysfunction, and everybody loses. Both genders are guilty of pretending this kind of uncommitted "freedom" constitutes the good life. We'll be much healthier when we realize that...
While the Russian sailors truly were innocents, the loss of an enemy nuclear submarine means that the probability of nuclear holocaust is decreased. And the discussion surrounding the accident perhaps points to some noble aspect of the American character: we see our enemies first as humans and only second as...