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Anyone who’s seen Tim Robbins’ stunning performance of a damaged man coping with a horrible secret in 2003’s Mystic River or his quiet portrayal of the falsely convicted Andy Dufresne in 1994’s The Shawshank Redemption knows what a truly gifted actor is about to come to Cambridge. Robbins won Academy Awards for both those roles, and was nominated for Best Director for 1995’s Dead Man Walking. He’s also won acclaim for his roles in 1992’s The Player, 1990?...
...singer of the Irish rock band U2, inducted Marley into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he said this about the Tuff Gong: "He wanted everything at the same time and was everything at the same time: prophet, soul rebel, Rastaman, herbsman, wild man, a natural mystic man, ladies man, island man, family man, Rita's man, soccer man, showman, shaman, human, Jamaican...
...Jamaica's complicated history-a jumble of such disparate concepts, places and things as Rasta philosophy, Garveyism, pirates, rebellion, guava jelly, and Trench Town - and refashioned it into focused, complex music that was concerned with reality but shot through with magic. He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions of Jah, but believed in looking "for yours on earth...
Robbins won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar last year for his role in “Mystic River” and has starred in other films including “The Shawshank Redemption.” He also is a writer, director, and producer whose credits include “Dead Man Walking...
...paragon succeeding in integrating Eastern and Western culture." At the World of Tsingtao, tel: (86-532) 383 3437, who can argue? Located in the Yellow Sea port from which it takes its name, the museum at China's best-known brewery contains two-dozen exhibits that bear titles like "Mystic Yeast." The Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 gets a display, as does a 4,000-year-old Sumerian hymn to Ninkasi, the goddess of brewing. Better still, the guide promises that at the tour's final stop, "visitors can sample all kinds of fresh Tsingtao beer...