Following Hilary Swank's Oscar acceptance speech, JoAnn Brandon took offense at Swank for thanking " Brandon Teena "-the name Teena Brandon adopted-and for referring to her as a man.

Driver plays a fellow law student and friend of Swank's character who helps her with the case.

Swank's neighbors believed the " young man " coming and going from her home was Swank's visiting brother.

Berardinelli stated that Swank " gives the performance of her career " and that " Sevigny's performance is more conventional than Swank's, but no less effective.

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 88 % out of 75 professional critics gave the film a positive review, with the site consensus being that " Hilary Swank's acclaimed performance pays fitting tribute to the tragic life of Brandon Teena.

The performances of Swank and Sevigny were picked out as some of the film's strongest elements, with many critics declaring Swank's performance to be " one of the greatest " in recent years.

In February 2005, upon the release of the three-DVD " Karate Kid Collection ", Variety magazine called The Next Karate Kid a " boilerplate coming-of-age sequel " but notes that Swank's " plucky determination and athletic drive shines through " that film as it would later do in Million Dollar Baby.

Glenn appeared in the drama Freedom Writers, in which he played the father of Hilary Swank's character, and in The Bourne Ultimatum.

The Affair of the Necklace earned mixed reviews from critics with most comments focusing on Hilary Swank's performance within the film's highly stylized period drama setting.

But it's bloodless, fussy, and undermined by Hilary Swank's stiff, one-note performance.

Will Forte appeared in the sketch as Swank's then-husband, Chad Lowe.

Living in anonymity was easy, according to the actress, because she " didn't act like an actress.

Although often attending public events in her later life, Shearer withdrew from the glamor side of Hollywood and preferred anonymity, with her secretary stating in 1960: " Miss Shearer does not want any publicity.

The anonymity of the entombed soldier is key to the symbolism of the monument: since his or her identity is unknown, it could theoretically be the tomb of anyone who fell in service of the nation in question, and therefore serves as a monument to all of their sacrifices.

Perhaps as a British double-agent, his continued anonymity required her death, lest she tell her fellow British Communists back home and blow his cover.

In 1980, Bell, aged 23, was released from Askham Grange open prison, having served 12 years, and was granted anonymity ( including a new name ) allowing her to start a new life.

However, on 21 May 2003, Bell won a High Court battle to have her own anonymity and that of her daughter extended for life.

In the 2007 " Back in Black " storyline, Peter and MJ scramble to save Aunt May's life, rushing her from hospital to hospital while trying to maintain their fragile cover of anonymity.

In 1987 Bente Blehr refused anonymity when an interview with her was published in " Born Guilty ", a collection of 12 interviews with children whose parent ( s ) collaborated with German forces in occupied Norway.

The anonymity was an open secret, though, as her other works were advertised as, by " the author of The Female Quixote ", but no published version of The Female Quixote bore her name during her life.

Fueled by fears of posthumous anonymity, she proclaimed after graduation her determination to become " great and famous " as a poet or playwright.

She lived her post-retirement years in anonymity until her death from stomach cancer in Honolulu at the age of 68.

In 1949, Father Bishop taught at St. Louis University, where one of his female students asked for help concerning her thirteen year old cousin ( for reasons of anonymity referred to by the pseudonym Robbie Mannheim ), who had been experiencing supernatural attacks after playing with a Ouija board and had already gone through one unsuccessful exorcism.

When prospective backers balked at her relative anonymity in the States, he produced the movie himself.

Some or all of her published surveys depended on wide multi-channel questionnaire distribution, opportunity for many long answers on a respondent's own schedule, enforced respondent anonymity, and response by mail rather than polling by telephone.

The plaintiff asserted that Golden had agreed to protect her anonymity if she told him about her life as a geisha, due to the traditional code of silence about their clients.

Though she relished the anonymity of leading a life outside of the public eye, she was reading scripts for television pilots and had maintained friendships with several of her Sisters costars.

They focus on the artist's right ( which by s. 14. 1 ( 2 ) is not assignable, though it may be waived ) to protect throughout the duration of the economic rights ( even where these have been assigned elsewhere ) both the integrity of the work and his or her authorship of it ( or anonymity, as the author wishes ).”

Israeli soldiers interviewed in the documentary, and whose anonymity was maintained, submitted that their commander had knowingly shot the girl in the head at close range and then emptied his magazine of bullets into her body to " confirm the kill.

People who work for Disney generally do so in relative anonymity ; the stories only carry Walt Disney's name and ( sometimes ) a short identification number.

As a direct result of the anonymity requirements, the node requesting a datum does not normally connect directly to the node that has it ; instead, the datum is routed across several intermediaries, none of which know which node requested the datum or which one had it.

* Professional I-O Psychologist Network ( you can post messages and / or read and reply to others ' postings ; organized by topic ; maintains anonymity via use of avatars )

addresses to ensure they do not break the law ; others offer superior anonymity with attachment functionality by choosing to trust that the users will not breach the websites Terms of Service ( TOS ).

Studies encompassed discursive communities ; identity ; community as social reality ; networking ; the public sphere ; ease and anonymity in interactions.

Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic, however ; he considered the album to be " featureless " and bemoaned the " anonymity " of Harrison's vocals.

# Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion ; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.

The formation of roving mumming groups became a popular practice so common it became associated with criminal or lewd behaviour, as the use of masks allowed anonymity ; and in the time of Henry the 8th, became banned for a period.

There are many reasons to use anonymous P2P technology ; most of them are generic to all forms of online anonymity.

Stromer-Galley considered that the following characteristics of the online conversation free people from the psychological barriers that keep them from engaging in a face-to-face deliberation ; " an absence of non-verbal cues, which leads to a lowered sense of social presence, and a heightened sense of anonymity ".

Despite having vied for the award for over thirty five years, Whitey is once again passed over ; he leaves in disgrace, intending to move to Florida, where he can live out the rest of his life in anonymity.

* to ensure anonymity since there may be minimal or no records maintained ; or

When the painting first appeared at the Paris Salon under the title Portrait de Mme *** in 1884, people were shocked and scandalized ; the attempt to preserve the subject's anonymity was unsuccessful, and the sitter's mother requested that Sargent withdraw the painting from the exhibition.

King maintained his innocence, protesting that there was no statute of limitations for sex offences, which he said meant he had been unable to defend himself adequately because of the length of time that had passed ; that there was no requirement to corroborate the allegations ; and that the complainants were allowed to maintain their anonymity.

The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed a North Korean chemist who described the operation ; insisting on anonymity, he spoke about the technical details of the process as well as the distribution method, which he said was through North Korean diplomats and international crime syndicates.

He adopted the name " K. S. ( Kumar Sri ) Ranjitsinhji " to preserve his anonymity, but he later realised he could benefit from going by the English translation of " Prince Ranjitsinhji ", although he had no right to call himself a prince ; he also became more involved in society and started to assume minor celebrity status.

* SafeWeb PrivacyMatrix-browsing ( This was a web anonymity service that was shut down in Nov. 2001 ; not to be confused with Norton Safe Web )

The effect that this concept had on church music was threefold: first, it bred a highly conservative attitude to musical composition ; secondly, it stabilized the melodic tradition of certain hymns ; and thirdly, it continued, for a time, the anonymity of the composer.