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...thought, the man himself will give me insight into the burning question; just how did he rise up to the top of his profession? Cruise said he got "lucky." In the early eighties, he landed a slew of roles that our generation remembers from adolescence. These include "Endless Love," "The Outsiders" (sexy slicked-back hair and denim), "All the Right Moves' (football hunk), and "Risky Business" (Princeton-bound entrepreneur). Speaking of which, his mother and sister, who also came to celebrate the Pudding Event, said that while growing up, Tom was very much like the scheming, clever, but naive character...
...thought I had ferreted some angst from the champion of devil-may-care. Finding myself groping for more insight into Cruise's personality, I asked him if he identifies personally with any particular characters he has created. Cruise said he identifies with all of his characters. (Was I not asking the questions pointedly enough?) He said his favorite role is the one he has just finished playing at any given time. "You find things in yourself to Bring to the screen," he explained...
Fourth, remember the "one critical insight" rule. People read their movie criticism for two reasons--not only to find out what to se, but also so that they can impress their friends or their dates by the acute analytic perceptions that they have "come up with" While they've been watching the film. Make sure to put at least one of these ideas in every column. These ideas can come in two forms: the comparative and the subtextual...
...Graham Allison is an outstanding scholar,teacher, and collegue," Carnesale said. "Theknowledge and insight from his recent experiencein government make him all the more valuable as amember of our faculty. We are eager to have himback with...
Throughout the film Marcello encounters characters in an increasingly declining moral climate. All of these people reject any sort of self-analysis and simply spend their time at parties and gatherings, escaping from life with alcohol and casual sex. Even moments of conversational insight are lost on such a crowd. One woman declares during an informal party. "I believe that if we live intensely, in spiritual fulfillment, every minute is worth a year and every year we get younger!" Her flippantly-made remark is quickly laughed off: "An oracle! An alcoholic oracle!" Marcello seems to stop searching for fulfillment, rather...