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...news reports said, showed up to gawk and picnic at the rescue site. After Collins was found dead, 17 days later, songs were written, and the incident became the basis for a musical, the Robert Penn Warren novel The Cave and the acerbic 1951 Billy Wilder movie Ace in the Hole, in which a small-town reporter hits the big time by exploiting a mine-rescue story...
...Zheng Jie, it all came down to the nifty clothes. A lot of youngsters fall in love with tennis because of the exhilaration of a perfect ace or the thrilling geometry of a well-placed volley. But when Zheng was growing up in China's rural Sichuan province, she knew little about the game. The coaches who approached her in 1990, when she was seven years old, had to explain that tennis was like ping-pong, only with a bigger, fuzzier ball. Still, there were advantages to playing this strange sport. "Because my teammates and I were among the first...
...perverse lives his characters lead, making the film a remarkably engaging meditation. Allen may never again portray New York, or the insane relationships of New Yorkers, with his former success, but if he continues to film in London with such talented young stars, he might just draw another ace.—Staff writer Kristina M. Moore can be reached at moore2@fas.harvard.edu...
...this!" exclaims the man who brings Kong from Skull Island to Manhattan. The world got its money's worth in 1933, as you will with this set that collects the three Cooper-Schoedsack simian sensations (Kong and its less fearsome offspring), all animated by stop-motion ace Willis O'Brien. Among the invaluable extras: a splendid documentary on Cooper by Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird, and a making-of feature on the original Kong--still the eighth wonder of the movie world...
...only will we forget how to hide the ace up our sleeve, but neither will we remember how to read into the heart of a matter. Instead of learning to understand personality, a generation of “grinders” is predicting percentages and pounding out the numbers. Why bother disciplining the sixth sense when a group of MIT students have already shown that simple smarts can bring down the house...