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Plucking children from obscurity and making them stars, even for one movie, can be perilous, as the kid actors from almost any '80s TV show can attest. And even Fernando Ramos da Silva, the illiterate Brazilian boy who starred at 12 in Hector Babenco's Pixote, returned to the streets and, when he was 19, was killed by police. There are milder dangers: Boyle is worried that Etel, having carried his first film, might be disappointed if he doesn't get another big role. "The business can be very loving and also very hurtful, almost simultaneously," Boyle says...
...pure creativity and unrivalled artistry of backboard-to-Steve Nash’s head-to-Amare Stoudemire’s soaring hands rivaled the most magnificent accomplishments of Da Vinci and made us question whether we all might have such latent treasures hidden deep within ourselves...
...fighting illegal efforts by loggers and ranchers to appropriate land in the Amazon rain forest; after being shot in the face by gunmen just days after she met with Brazil's Human Rights Secretary to report death threats against local farmers; near Anapu, Brazil. President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva responded to the outcry over her death last week by creating two vast Amazonian forest preserves and sending the first of 2,000 troops to the region...
...illegal loggers and ranchers to appropriate vast areas of land in the Amazon rain forest; after being shot in the face by gunmen, just days after she met with Brazil's Human-Rights Secretary to report death threats against local farmers; near Anapu, Brazil. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sent federal investigators and the first of 2,000 troops to the region, calling for a crackdown on violence against land activists...
...toga-clad Heinz Schubert in the 1978 film Our Hitler), he delivers a spluttering invective against the “low races,” and proceeds to bestow upon Bose a toy model of the boat that will carry the latter around Africa “like Vasco da Gama”—and furnish ample opportunity, in turn, to bond with the spice-starved German crew over...