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...write, "Now, 60 years later after I began, despite all that success, no one will give me a chance to show what I can do." Is that just something that happens to people as they get older in Hollywood, or do you think you have it worse than others?I don't want to play old men on the screen. I don't want to be just sitting in chairs or walking slowly up and down. I'm 83 years old, but I'm as healthy as one can be, and still a fine-looking gentleman. I can fence...
...last year off to devote herself fully to training for the Olympic squad, Lofgren finally returns to Cambridge to complete her senior year. Bringing experience, knowledge, and passion to the team, Lofgren will take the senior class to the next level.“I’m definitely older, I’ve been here longer,” Lofgren said. “From being at Radcliffe for that long, and then training this past year, the hours of training, the technical side builds up.” “We’re so excited...
...forgotten that the camera is rolling. In an opening scene where Ian accidentally hints at his love for Felicia, actress Amanda Crew delivers a momentary blank stare, as if forgetting to react. The one bright spot is James Marsden’s performance as Ian’s jerk older brother Rex. He delivers lines attacking Ian in a way both brutal and hilarious. Take, for instance, his insight into Ian’s love life: “You’re 18 and you’ve never had a girlfriend. That?...
Early in to Siberia, a new novel by Per Petterson (Graywolf Press; 245 pages), the narrator and her older brother cut their hands and mix their blood. It's a familiar childhood ritual, sweetened by naive redundancy: How much closer than siblings can you be? The bond between this sister and brother turns out to be a love story--pure, but as painful as the touch of steel to skin...
...black leaders say that's not a given. Among many black political observers, there is a pronounced sense that Obama's advisers have consciously distanced themselves from older black leaders who might galvanize prospective voters - especially in the many impoverished black communities where there is no tradition of voting as an obligatory civic duty. Ronald Walters, director of the University of Maryland's African American Leadership Center, says, "You can't send young volunteers into the hollows of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida with BlackBerries, reaching out to black voters, and expect them to do the same kind...