The Constant Gardener and The English Patient were both brilliant films, and Fiennes was brilliant in both roles.

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Meirelles' next project is The Constant Gardener, starring Ralph Fiennes as an English diplomat in Kenya whose wife is murdered.

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On Sunday, 34-year-old Weisz won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as aid worker Tessa Quayle in The Constant Gardener, developed from a John Le Carre novel.

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Yet the FCC still regulates over-the-air broadcasters as if TV were a delicate flower, one requiring constant fussing by an overanxious gardener.

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