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...more because, in the 2hr.40min. version shown at Cannes, Southland Tales felt not only unfinished but unformed. After his imposing directorial debut with Donnie Darko in 2001, Kelly secured financing (mostly from German sources) for a much larger budget film, with some big-name stars: Dwyane Johnson, aka The Rock, Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy) and Seann William Scott (Stiffler in the American Pie farces, here in a more serious role). He also hired a passel of veterans from Saturday Night Live, including Janeane Garofalo, Amy Poehler, Jon Lovitz and Nora Dunn. Plus Justin Timberlake, Wallace Shawn and, slimmed down...
...divine mandate to talk to Pharaoh, we feel that J-Zone has anointed us to offer some final words of ignorance before we break the tape at the finish line of our senior year. While neither of us will be named Harvard Class of ’06 Valedictorian (aka World’s Weirdest Kid), we feel blessed to have had the ability to publish blathering crap over the past year. What began as an act of nepotism within the FM office became an opportunity for us to make everyone feel just a bit more depressed about their surroundings...
...hobo camp Freddie meets Sam, AKA "The King of Spain," an older drifter with several past lives. He's a bit of a cut-up, this self-proclaimed monarch of the boxcars, and he brings out Freddie's nascent personality. Their relationship forms the heart of Kings in Disguise, turning the book into an unusual buddies-on-the-road story. Over the course of the story Vance keeps the relationship finely tuned by changing its nature from the beginning - Freddie needs a mentor and Sam needs a purpose in his life - through the end, as Sam becomes increasingly ill from...
...kinda tired of this Harvard square / Yeah, they’re kinda smart but I’m hardly scared.” Liu gradually wins the audience over with his quick, aggressive lyrics. In the final round, he ismet by Mikal N. Floyd-Prewitt ‘06, aka MC Mikal.Floyd-Prewitt is the yin to Liu’s yang. His flow is relaxed, comical, more blatantly offensive. His oversized white sunglasses and white polo shirt—collar popped—provoke some competitors to roast him as middle-class, but he withstands the barbs through opponent...
...many times. Character Analysis: Patience Philips starts out as a soft-spoken worker at a cosmetics company. After she, with her acute investigative savvy, stumbles upon a corporate secret, she, in a cinematic twist of fate, becomes Catwoman, a heroine who must take down the corporate structure—aka Sharon Stone. Notable quotation: Catwoman: “You see, sometimes I’m good. Oh, I’m very good. But sometimes I’m bad. But only as bad as I wanna be. Freedom is power. To live a life untamed and unafraid...