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...last year was a blessing. After a couple of disappointing movies (although the widely panned Fun with Dick and Jane and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events each wound up slowly dragging in more than $100 million domestically), Carrey fired Nick Stevens of United Talent Agency, the agent who had guided him through his entire career. Then two movies - Used Guys with Ben Stiller and a comedy with Cameron Diaz - fell apart. And Ripley's Believe It or Not was also delayed. "I just can't put software out. I can't. I'll have a physical reaction...
...Kansas City package was examined by a police bomb squad and, according to Kansas City FBI Agent Bob Herndon, there is an ongoing investigation of the letters and packages in multiple FBI field offices across the country. The U.S. Post Office is also investigating the letters and has issued an alert...
...Kodak Theater. No one asked the guy who designed the mysterious-sounding Brugmatic MPST Densitometer who he is wearing. No one speculated if the woman who helped the film industry convert from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks is finally over her ex. No one thanked his agent - although the computer science department at MIT did get name-checked...
...president will have to maintain and celebrate Harvard’s traditional strengths while still continuing and even accelerating these integrating presses. More so than any other university’s president, Harvard’s president must serve as both a trust officer and an agent of constructive change...
...philosophical heart that is as intellectually dissatisfying as it is morally troubling. Of course, it also contains intermittent hints of brilliance, but they come in all the wrong places and dissipate all too quickly.Mailer’s narrator, who at first claims to be an SS agent but quickly reveals himself to be a mid-level demon (literally), promises to “uproot many a conventional belief.” The first such belief, it seems, is that a novel about Hitler should be engrossing and disturbing, viscerally appealing, and morally horrifying from the beginning.Instead, Mailer opens...