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• Forget Dana Carvey, Cromwell is Bush Sr. now
Bush is pivotal in Stone’s film biography of the current president. “He never looked liked me. His physiognomy is not the same, and I’m not going to do a Dana Carvey. That’s of no use in a drama, in a piece of fiction. There’s no reality to ...
• Stone shows surprising restraint with ‘W.’
LOS ANGELES - Oliver Stone thinks George W. Bush was unqualified to be president. However, the filmmaker found him an irresistible figure for drama. After months of speculation over whether Stone’s film biography would be a hatchet job on Bush ...
• India to get first female Roman Catholic saint
According to a Vatican biography, she stepped on hot coals to burn and disfigure her feet to escape an arranged marriage and become a nun. In Bharananganam, a small town in Kerala state where Sister Alphonsa lived and worked in the Clarist Convent ...
• DVD reviews: ‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’
Chaplin” — Robert Downey Jr. stars as comedy legend Charles Chaplin in Richard Attenborough’s film biography, which gets a DVD makeover in a 15th-anniversary edition that includes two featurettes and a home movie on Chaplin. Attenborough also ...
• A breakthrough
... on how to recruit volunteers and persuade voters. The gist was that volunteers needed to motivate others by speaking about their experiences and reasons for supporting Obama -- their "story" -- instead of just parroting the candidate's biography or ...