| 'Blood' the kind of epic Hollywood likes
His character, early 20th-century oil man Daniel Plainview, is a mesmerizing study of a driven captain of industry. Plainview, at least in the early part of the story, is a slick salesman, a persuasive man who lies as easily as he charms, as effortlessly as he breathes. Inspired by Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel, Oil!, the story begins in 1898. Plainview is a silver and gold prospector in California hacking precious metals from darkness and rock. Skipping to 1902, the wily Plainview is on to something far more promising than California’s tapped-out mines, that flowing black gold called oil. Plainview leads a primitive oil-drilling operation. The danger of the job yields him a son, the child of a worker gruesomely killed in a well pit calamity. The oil-man on the rise calls the boy H.W.
dark matter
He might call and say, "What about this?" He makes suggestions: "I'd like this, I'd like that." I'm free to say I think that's a bad idea. But he is my boss so I have to defend it. That explains a lot. ... 12:35 P.M. ___________________________ Zell Hill Dis: L.A. Times/Tribune owner-to-be Sam Zell uses "a four-letter obscenity to describe" Mrs. Clinton, reports Connie Bruck. ... Is there another four letter obscenity, or is it that one? ... "Coot!" She's an old coot. That must be it. ... 11:43 P.M. ___________________________ .
The drama of Tracy-Ann Oberman
Less clear, at least to begin with, is why an interview about her adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters would require the presence of a press officer. But Oberman is used to supervised dealings with the press, thanks to her 18-month stint as Chrissie Watts, Dirty Den’s second wife, on EastEnders. There, storylines were so fiercely guarded that even the cast weren’t sure how they would play out. When, one rainy night in February 2005, she killed Den with a doorstop shaped like a small dog, the show’s producers shot multiple endings to ensure the cast couldn’t leak the plot. Three Sisters, on the other hand, is famous for not having a plot. When it opened in 1901, Chekhov’s study of the quietly despairing Pozorov family caused critical confusion, precisely because so very little appeared to happen.
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