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Crazy Heart

Robert Duvall won his only Oscar for Tender Mercies, where he played a once-famous Country singer whose career is bottoming out, but gets a possible shot of moral redemption from a kind-hearted younger woman. Duvall co-produced and has a supporting role in Crazy Heart, a film with a similar story and much the same low-key ambiance and humanity of the older film. The central figure of Crazy Heart is another acting veteran who inhabits each role with seemingly effortless grace—and this film…

The Last Station

With the possible exception of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, the most famous married couple in the world of literary artists is Leo and Sofia Tolstoy, a more tempestuous and hot-blooded union than the celebrity couplings we see every day in the tabloids or on the internet.  Count Tolstoy, author of towering masterpieces of Russian Literature that included War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was a global icon in the late 19th/early 20th century.  He was almost literally worshipped by many,…