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Maura Tierney, playing Hopkins' estranged daughter, listens to Gooding talk and struggles to keep her emotions in check, smoking intensely while her eyes water and her chin quivers.
And while Hollywood struggles to find meaning in Titanic and Leo-mania, Fox's newly-minted, longterm deal with Aussie auteur Baz Luhrmann--who directed DiCaprio in Romeo and Juliet --shows that they do get it, after all.
His description toward the end of Climbing Mount Improbable of wasps enmeshed in Byzantine power struggles with fig trees is a model of nature writing, at once lyrical and lucid.
Critics call this courtroom thriller about a lawyer (John Travolta) on a crusade against a polluting company "perversely undramatic" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Some say a miscast Travolta fails to convey the finer points of his character's internal struggles.
Emerging victorious from the struggles between the Yueh-chi and the Shakas, King Kanishka of the Kushan established an empire from the northern half of India and into Central Asia.