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		<title>Box Office: Roman Polanski Controversy</title>
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Controversy sells. At least sometimes it does. 
Roman Polanski (above, lower photo), under house arrest in Switzerland while fighting extradition to the United States on charges of having had sexual intercourse with a minor in the late 1970s, was named Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for  The Ghost Writer, starring Ewan McGregor (above, top photo), Pierce Brosnan, and Kim Cattrall. This weekend, the political thriller had the highest per screen average by far at the US box office: $45,752 at four theaters in New York and Los Angeles, for a total of $183,009 according to Box Office Mojo.
Some, including several commenting on this blog, remarked that those who watched Polanski&#8217;s movies &#8212; be it Chinatown, The Fearless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannes 2009: Heath Ledger in THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS</title>
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Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian:
&#34;Heath Ledger takes a poignant final bow in Terry Gilliam&#8217;s loopy, sweet-natured but madly self-indulgent fantasia The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, showing here  at the Cannes film festival out of competition. Halfway through shooting, Ledger had made a  desperately sad early exit, so the director ingeniously re-invented his  character as a series of personae. Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp gamely stepped into the breach.
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&#34;When Gilliam shoots off into his surreal wonderland, his film has a  kind of helium-filled jollity and spectacle. &#8230;  But the film&#8217;s convoluted curlicues  are tiring, insisting too loudly on how &#8216;imaginative&#8217; everything is.  And when it descends into the real world – Lucy [...]]]></description>
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