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FOR THE LOVE OF FIGHTING.(Gangs of New York)(Catch Me If You Can)(The Hours)(Movie Review)

The New Yorker

| December 23, 2002 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

What's going on with the English? For years, all you had to do was turn on a light bulb and they would show up to act. But recently several talented young men have threatened to abandon their calling in pursuit of higher virtue. Just when Linus Roache's career should have taken off, the accomplished star of "Priest" spent a couple of years meditating in the East, and the great Daniel Day-Lewis has devoted some of his time since 1997 to making shoes--in Florence, no less. The world may have gained an excellent cobbler, but no one, I think, who sees Day-Lewis's work in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" could ever wish him to take up hammer and awl again. The movie is ...

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