By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
"Frankenstein" co-stars Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch are competing for the best actor prize at London's Evening Standard Theater Awards.
Director Danny Boyle has always been drawn to people at extremes _ whether the Scottish drug addicts of "Trainspotting," the survivors of a zombie apocalypse of "28 Days Later" or the Mumbai street children fighting for survival in "Slumdog Millionaire."

Danny Boyle made the world root for a Mumbai street urchin in "Slumdog Millionaire," made James Franco sweat as a climber trapped in a Utah canyon for "127 Hours." Then for his next trick, he made a monster.