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ElizabethtownDirected by Cameron CroweParamount Pictures3.5 Stars“I teach [my kid] about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zant because they are both of equal importance,” says one character in Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown,” the latest work from the creative genius behind “Almost Famous.” In this new film, the writer-director attempts to make sense of the varied and often irreverent cultural contrasts and contradictions he finds amid the Mississippi River Valley. Crowe starts his film in the contrastingly sterile and bland corporate...
...college quarterback whose knee injury permanently removes him from the playing field. Washed up, stuck in a cubical that “looks like a Turkish prison,” Brandon’s luck finally changes when he receives a call from big-time sports-betting magnate Walter Abraham (Al Pacino). Walter works off of one principle: “Know what you know, know what you don’t know, and know that everything you know I gotta know as soon as you know it.” While he’s talking about Brandon?...
...student life on campus,” wrote The Crimson editorial staff last week, echoing a long-held sentiment. “I think a centralized student center would be the ideal thing,” says Mather HoCo co-chair Ryan “Trini” Abraham ’06, “because it would have that title, it would have that function, and everybody would probably go there.”Although elusive promises abound for a student center in Allston, they have not satisfied The Crimson or Abraham—and they have certainly...
...Abraham Lincoln understood what post-Civil War Reconstruction would demand. Franklin Roosevelt understood what recovery from the Depression would require. This President doesn't seem to understand what recuperating from Katrina is all about. I wish he were as interested in helping the country come to grips with it as he appears to be in saving his own political skin. David Oliver Kansas City, Missouri...
...Abraham Lincoln understood whatpost--Civil War Reconstruction would demand. Franklin Roosevelt understood what recovery from the Depression would require. This President doesn't seem to understand what recuperating from Katrina is all about. I wish he were as interested in helping the country come to grips with it as he appears to be in saving his own political skin...