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...writer/director Michael Hoffman's adaptation of Jay Parini's historical novel, Leo Tolstoy is played in grizzly glory by Christopher Plummer. Helen Mirren portrays the mercurial Mrs. Tolstoy, Countess Sofya, who fears her husband - and their fortunes - will be carried out on the shoulders of sycophants. The pairing of these two giants explains why the film, which doesn't open nationwide until February, is making a brief Academy-qualifying appearance in theaters...
...Plummer it's all of the above. Waffling is not a great source of dramatic tension, but watching a public man struggle to figure out his own best - and private - end is certainly affecting, and that's what Plummer gives us. By the time we get to the "Last Station" itself, the Astapovo railway station where Tolstoy died, Hoffman finally lets Valentin fade into the background and the focus rest on Leo and Sofya. What you carry away from the movie is the reminder that a deathbed is the place where the living stake their possession for the last time...
...Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes underwent a heart pacemaker surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital on Friday after stumbling from severe dizziness while delivering a talk in upstate New York on Wednesday...
...said Cox during the ceremony. As the oldest endowed chair in America, the Hollis Professor of Divinity position was funded in 1721 by Thomas Hollis, a major benefactor of Harvard in its early years and the namesake of Hollis Hall and the Hollis library catalog. According to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes’s speech at the ceremony, the area where Tercentenary Theater now stands was once the college’s pasture, where high-ranking professors would earn the right to let their cattle, then considered a must-have accessory, graze on what Gomes called...
...Hollis Professor of Divinity holds the privileged right to graze his cows—a perk that first came to Cox’s attention when he assumed the post in 2002, and later became the inspiration for yesterday’s ceremony. “Harvey spoke to [Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J.] Gomes about the Hollis professor’s grazing rights,” said Cutler. “We said, let’s do it.” As the cow grazed in a patch of grass by Memorial Church, Gomes spoke jokingly...