Word: graying
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...cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively - like a baby's fist around an adult's finger - when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
...past year--including Gillette's Michael Hawley (also canned last week), British Airways' Robert Ayling and Xerox's Rick Thoman. And the list is growing. The number of CEO departures went from just 46 last September to 103 this September, according to a study by the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The number this fall is expected to be double the October 1999 figure...
...James Gray...
...watch? No way. There are some scenes in which the suspense is almost unbearable-for example, Leo lurking behind hospital curtains, waiting for the right moment to kill a witness, accompanied by the sound of blood rushing through his head. The room has an eerie glow, thanks to Gray's experimentation with the camera film. (In order to get the darker, more subtle "look" of the movie, the film was underexposed to the point where it began to break down.) The movie is full of moments like that-moments in which the characters unwillingly play out the consequences circumstances beyond...
...face. It seems silly to read about, but it works. Much the same thing goes for the rest of the cast. Charlize Theron, ever the chameleon, plays the languid, dark-haired Erika; Faye Dunaway and James Caan are her mother and stepfather. Their acting efforts are helped immensely by Gray's direction. Gray paints every scene in order to give his crew a better idea of his visual style, and he has a definite vision of what the film should be all about, both in terms of plot and aesthetics. The Yards does have a certain edgy, rough, film-school...