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  The Jewish Exponent - Philadelphia, PA
Still, Harwood thinks the Lean film version was a meat-and-potatoes dish for those who like their Fagins fearfully anti-Semitic, a bleak house of hate to live in.
Harwood, too, learned to think outside the parameters of his own country: Born in South Africa, he immigrated to England 54 years ago while a teen.
Harwood, whose roots are firmly planted in the iconography of Judaism, is a wordsmith who feels the lure and lull of language - and loathes its misreadings.
www.jewishexponent.com /ViewArticle.asp?ArtID=1104   (979 words)

  
 JS Online: Polanski, Harwood team up again
Harwood, a veteran English playwright and film writer, won the Academy Award for adapted screenplay, based on the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman.
Harwood, 70, was born in South Africa but has lived in Britain since the early 1950s.
Harwood has written a script of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," based on the memoir of a paralyzed magazine editor, which Johnny Depp will star in for director Julian Schnabel.
www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/movies/oct05/359585.asp   (453 words)

  
 Late Night Poker review for The Good Gambling Guide. Commentator Jesse May.
Barney bet him all-in with his King-Nine and hit one of his three card draw on the turn (4th) card.
Harwood got into a difficult position when opening up for a £1,000 with his pocket Queens and found a re-raise.
Barney bets and he passed the opportunity to take him out with the draw.
www.thegoodgamblingguide.co.uk /games/latenightpoker/series3episode6.htm   (302 words)

  
 Boxoffice Magazine [OLIVER TWIST Film Review]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The writing/directing team behind "The Pianist" returns with another literary adaptation, that of the well-known and well-loved "Oliver Twist," which was last filmed for the bigscreen as the musical "Oliver!" more than 35 years ago.
The Oliver Twist of the title is a young orphan (Barney Clark, a bit more passive than necessary) who, as the film begins, has just been sent to a workhouse, where he and other boys are cruelly exploited.
What's lacking in the film is heart; Harwood's condensing of the Charles Dickens novel seems rushed and is more than a little impersonal.
www.boxoffice.com /scripts/fiw.dll?GetReview?&where=ID&terms=8387   (318 words)

  
 Journalism.org - Resources We Offer - Education & Training - Forums and Speeches - CCJ Forums - Can Journalism Be ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dick Harwood, the Washington Post media columnist, began the second session, which examined more closely how the press may fail to live up to its goals of impartiality, with a look at the history of objectivity and the views of a century of its critics.
Congressman Barney Frank, (D-Mass.), as moderator Deborah Howell noted in her introduction, had remarked elsewhere that he's getting the best press of his life, and he doesn't like it.
Barney Frank: "I think it starts in the late '70s into the early '80s....I've had some older reporters tell me this, that they do find that younger people in the profession are more inclined to come with their knives out looking for bad stuff."
www.journalism.org /resources/education/forums/ccj/forum2/bias.asp   (3684 words)

  
 westword.com | Film | Movies | Artful Dodging | 2005-09-29   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Even the grime on the boys' faces seems painted on, while the muted grays and browns and even the squalor are too "perfect" to be believable.
Young Barney Clark, too, is cute but not wholly convincing as Oliver, and the others are fine, but not exceptional.
The film's score is as much a part of the story as are the dialogue and plot, given that there are great stretches of action with no one speaking.
www.westword.com /Issues/2005-09-29/film/movies.html   (859 words)

  
 NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
Pert Barney Clark is the hopeful, battered wanderer of "Oliver Twist," and while this 11-year-old cherub-of-steel is not as wide-eyed as Adrien Brody in "The Pianist," his journey across a wretched, teeming nineteenth-century London bears similarities to that fearful adventure.
A major component of the novel is excised--Harwood says that he never could stand the central coincidence of Oliver's origins and eventual fate--which provides a substantially different perspective from many readers' experience of the novel, and certainly a gentler one, attuned to redemption rather than good fortune.
One of the major additions by Harwood and Polanski involves small Oliver's capacity for forgiveness, even in the face of terrible facts he knows and even worse ones he will likely never know.
www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/4720.html   (874 words)

  
 [No title]
Bellemare & Sons was approved with conditions including additional landscaping around the propane tank, a sidewalk constructed across the front of the property, three new deciduous trees, intensity of lighting limited, left hand turns onto Northside restricted.
Brady, Copp, Alderman, von Ouhl, Barney, and Thompson were in favor.
Barney does not feel that the cul de sac makes sense, but he and Alderman agreed that they need to be consistent.
www.bennington.com /government/meetings/dm20020605.txt   (6086 words)

  
 dnk1
Barnaby J Harwood was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, and was bitten by the performing bug at the tender age of three when he put on plays, using his socks as the main characters.
Barney’s musical talents caught the attention of boy-band Take That’s manager Nigel Martin-Smith and he joined a new band, Goal, under Nigel’s management and a record deal soon followed.
Barney’s first live presenting gig came when he landed a job on teen website "whereits.at" aimed at 12 to 24 year olds.
website.lineone.net /~tgc.dr/dnkn3.htm   (6558 words)

  
 CNN.com - EW review: Top-notch 'Oliver Twist' - Sep 23, 2005
The grimy, pint-size pickpockets Oliver falls in with have the crazed, hardened look of children ripped from childhood too soon, and their scaly handler, the sniveling Fagin (Ben Kingsley), is appropriately decayed, all bent of nose (with Semitic intimations) and mossy of teeth.
When Fagin clutches Oliver, played by angelic-looking newcomer Barney Clark, in a gnarled gesture of possessiveness (and, in Kingsley's nuanced portrayal, warped love), the contrast between the rotten "Jewishness" of the old man and the Christian luminosity of the boy couldn't be more acute.
As in his previous movie, "The Pianist" (also written by Harwood), Polanski here considers the case of a person shaped (or is it misshaped?) by a fate over which he has no control.
www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/23/ew.mov.oliver   (582 words)

  
 Variety.com - Award Central 2006  - Oliver Twist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And it doesn't approach the impact of the dark version David Lean directed in 1948, a film that for long stretches resembles silent cinema and one that was so controversial for its characterization of the Jewish villain Fagin that its U.S. release was delayed for three years, and then came out significantly cut.
Rather than as a tapestry of life's trials and tribulations, Polanski and his "Pianist" scenarist Ronald Harwood approach the classic tale as something of a boy's adventure yarn.
Crucially, Barney Clark is disappointingly wan and unengaging in the title role, giving the film a hole in the middle; when he disappears for a spell in the latter-going, it's a bit of a relief.
www.variety.com /review/VE1117928123?categoryID=31   (841 words)

  
 Oliver Twist (2005) on DVD - DVD Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Barney Clark stars as Oliver in Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist.
Following their Academy-Award winning film, "The Pianist," director Roman Polanski and writer Ronal Harwood re-imagine Charles Dickens' classic story of a young orphan boy who gets involved with a gang of pickpockets in 19th Century London.
Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is forced to live in a workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr.
www.dvdtown.com /announcement/olivertwist2005ondvd/2581   (247 words)

  
 KnoxNews: Columnists
From Polanski - a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who also had to survive the brutal murder of his wife, actress Sharon Tate, and since has become as notorious for his involvement in a statutory rape case as for his films - comes optimism.
Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is a sensitive 9-year-old who is returned to the workhouse where he was born (and where his mother died) after an ungracious upbringing at another facility.
Screenwriter Ronald Harwood, who also scripted Polanski's "The Pianist," slants the material toward more of a family film than previous versions of "Oliver Twist." Despite disturbing incidents, this is a tale of innocence maintained.
www.knoxnews.com /kns/entertainment_columnists/article/0,1406,KNS_360_4118803,00.html   (473 words)

  
 Eye - Twistin' all over -- again - 09.22.05
Just as The Pianist was deeply influenced by Roman Polanski's boyhood experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, his new adaptation of Oliver Twist seems rooted in the director's direct experience of deprivation and violence.
Polanski's frank portrayal of the squalor adds some urgency to Dickens' story, which depicts young Oliver's adventures among a coterie of pickpockets and their masters -- the monstrous Sykes and the strangely paternal Fagin (Ben Kingsley) -- before he is rescued by a member of the upper classes.
Yet for all the virtues in Polanski's direction, Ronald Harwood's efficient script and most of the key performances (especially Kingsley's pathetic, addled Fagin), this Oliver Twist is more worthy-minded than necessary.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.22.05/film/onscreen.html   (2152 words)

  
 BBC - CBBC - Star Chat Transcript   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Barney: If I tell you that would be telling you my secret!
Barney: Busted a while ago, but now McFly.
Barney: I wanted to ask Nev this because he spent a long time in the bathroom the other day.
www.bbc.co.uk /cbbc/chat/transcript_smile.shtml   (122 words)

  
 [No title]
Charles Copp moved and Bill Barney seconded approval for a new sign for the Town of Bennington, 209 South Street at the Blacksmith's Shop.
Ron Alderman moved and Bill Barney seconded the preliminary approval of the variance request and the reading of the Five Facts: Ron Alderman noted that there are lots this size with several homes on them and didn't feel that subdividing for two homes was a problem.
The hardship must be created by the unique physical circumstances or conditions peculiar to the particular property.
www.bennington.com /government/meetings/dm20021105.txt   (1389 words)

  
 [No title]
Over his lifetime, Andrew Allen Harwood (1802-1884), great grandson of Benjamin Franklin, kept letters and notes of interest and autographs in a collection known as ODDS and ENDS.
Harwood's career in the Navy started with his appointment as Midshipman on the gun-brig “Saranac” in 1818.
C.F. Shoemaker to F.B. Harwood, TDS apptmt as 3rd lieut.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/spc/xml/m0206.xml   (2400 words)

  
 slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Oliver Twist
Indeed, this may be one of the more faithful productions of Oliver Twist—so faithful, in fact, that Polanski and Ronald Harwood struggle to cram every juicy detail of the story into the film's 130 minutes.
Which means the film moves quickly, but too quickly to accommodate contours of character and complexity of emotion: Mr.
Brownlow (Edward Hardwicke) takes Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) into his home and Nancy (Leanne Rowe) later betrays Bill Sykes (Jamie Forman) in order to help Oliver return to his benefactor, but Nancy's change-of-heart lacks nuance, as does Brownlow's affection for the titular orphan.
www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1766   (332 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Movies: "Oliver Twist": There's no music to perk up this drab Dickens
Jamie Foreman's Bill Sykes is never very scary, and Barney Clark is not charismatic enough to play the orphaned Oliver.
Polanski and Harwood won Oscars for their adaptation of the Holocaust classic "The Pianist," and their "Oliver Twist" suggests a similarly bleak view of human nature.
But David Lean's 1948 version did so far more vividly, beginning with its Gothic opening sequence, in which Oliver's pregnant mother succumbs to a storm on her doomed journey to a workhouse.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/movies/2002529687_oliver30.html?syndication=rss&source=seattletimes.xml&items=16   (428 words)

  
 Polanski refuses to twist Dickens into tearjerker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
People who like their Dickens served up with big chunks of ham may be disappointed by Polanski and screenwriter Ronald Harwood's approach.
One would think this would be a major flaw: At the center of the film is a character who doesn't exactly grow, change or develop, who is something of a cipher in Clark's rote, child-actor performance.
To Clark's credit, however, he does rise to the occasion late in the game, when Oliver visits Fagin, who is in the midst of a mental breakdown.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/30/DDGHOEVETI1.DTL&type=movies   (739 words)

  
 Providence Phoenix - P&J   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I'm leaving because I want to retire," Chief Barney "Fife" Prignano is finally about to clean out his locker and break camp.
Of course, no one was forcing Barney out, just like there was nothing compelling the Bud-I to sell his house and boat.
And Barney really wants to leave under a cloud.
www.providencephoenix.com /archive/pj/01/01/04/pj.html   (1383 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- A toast to Roman!
If you love the book there is little to quarrel with here (a couple of sketch performances, and some quaint, Old London phrases are nicked off too fast in sound recording).
Handsome but never just cute, Barney Clark, as imperiled and lovable Oliver, at first seems a very shy actor, but then he is the lad completely and his fate compels us.
Cast: Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Leanne Row, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20050929-9999-lz1w29roman.html   (552 words)

  
 FilmStew.com • Sony Shouts at Twist
Polanski's France-based RP Prods., Italy's Medusa, the U.K.'s Runteam and the Czech Republic's Etic are financing and co-producing the film, which will begin production in Prague in July and will be released by Sony in 2005.
Ronald Harwood, who along with Polanski won an Oscar in 2003 for working on The Pianist, adapted the latest version of the Oliver tale.
Set in 19th century London, the story focuses on an orphan, Oliver (Barney Clark), who becomes involved with a band of child pickpockets.
www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=8609   (420 words)

  
 SacTicket // Movies // Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens' ragamuffin gets the prestige treatment from Roman Polanski and his "Pianist" screenwriter Ronald Harwood.
Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Frank Finlay, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden
Engaging, handsomely photographed and beautifully acted, (Roman) Polanski's "Oliver Twist," adapted by "Pianist" screenwriter Ronald Harwood, distinguishes itself from most versions in its decidedly dark tone.
movies.sacticket.com /movies/movie/detail?id=20972   (134 words)

  
 A Movie Parable: Oliver Twist
Director Roman Polanski follows up his Academy Award winning Holocaust movie, The Pianist, with a by-the-book faithful adaptation of Dickens' woeful tale of a mistreated orphan in nineteenth century London.
Parentless Oliver (Barney Clark), after having the audacity to ask for more gruel from the heartless caretakers of the orphanage, is delivered into the hands of a coffin maker to learn a trade.
Mistreated there, he runs away to London where he is "befriended" by a gang of under-aged pickpockets led by the nefarious Fagin (Ben Kingsley) who takes the young tyke under his soiled wing.
www.christiancritic.com /mov2005/otwist.asp   (558 words)

  
 Review: Oliver Twist (2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
You know there's a problem when the most interesting character in a film called Oliver Twist is a supporting woman named Nancy.
The biggest deficiency is Barney Clark, whose performance as the title character vacillates between befuddlement and artificial weepiness (rarely have I seen more crocodile tears).
For the story to work, sympathy with Oliver is mandatory, but Clark's acting and Polanski's direction keep the character at arm's length.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/o/oliver_twist.html   (561 words)

  
 2theadvocate.com: Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Getting straight to the point, I'm really not fond of Roman Polanski's version of "Oliver Twist." I like the classic story, but this big screen adaptation could have definitely been better.
Starring: (Voices) Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Leanne Rowe, Mark Strong, Jamie Foreman.
Regrettably, even wonderful actors like Ben Kingsley (Fagin) and Barney Clark (Oliver) seem to be swallowed up by this film's mundane scenes.
2theadvocate.com /movies/stories/mov_twist1001.shtml   (515 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | 'Oliver Twist'
Polanski and screenwriter Ronald Harwood (The Pianist) have begun by taking out all references to Oliver's heritage, which automatically deletes a certain amount of suspense.
Additionally, Polanski's Oliver (Barney Clark) is terribly passive and muted, and it's difficult to crawl into his tattered shoes.
John Howard Davies in the 1948 version had the proper haunted eyes and pouty lips, but the best Twist has to be Jackie Coogan in the underrated 1922 silent version.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.05.05/oliver-twist-0540.html   (595 words)

  
 Summary of Citation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Barney Cavanah Ridge Formation is named for exposures on the west slope of Barney Cavanah Ridge (sec.16 and 21, T15N R13E, Duncan Peak 7.5' quad), Placer Cc, Ca.
These rocks previously referred to informally as the Lawton terrane (Schweickert and others, 1984) and the melange of Deep Canyon (Harwood, 1988).
Reference locality on the west slope of knob containing the VABM Lawton (sec.14, T16N R12E).
ngmdb.usgs.gov /Geolex/Refsmry/sumry_4657.html   (168 words)

  
 CBBC circle
They had both presented the strand back in the Children’s BBC days but had returned the previous year as a double act in their own show Bring It On, and this clearly led to them being offered a return to the fold, previously unheard of on CBBC.
Also some new faces appeared — initially only on the CBBC channel — such as Sophie McDonnell, Jake Humphrey and Barney Harwood.
However, the launch team aside, there was no longer such a tag of exclusivity attached to being a member of the CBBC presentation team.
www.transdiffusion.org /ident/history/cbbc   (972 words)

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