Word: baling
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...average age of a comic-book buyer is 23, but Smith's point--that there are fans aplenty to support R-rated comics franchises--has been digested. Even PG-13 comic-book movies are maturing. Batman keeps getting darker scripts, like Nolan's The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger (in his haunting last performance, as the Joker). Marvel Studios' first two movies, Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, star Robert Downey Jr. and Ed Norton, Oscar-nominated actors with indie credibility. And Hellboy, who is back this summer for a sequel, is hardly your standard...
...apparel is imported into Nicaragua as "donations" to skirt commercial taxes, then resold for a 200 percent profit. To further cut costs, the used clothing purchased in the U.S. is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, the garments picked over and left behind at Goodwill and then sold by the bale at a clearance price of 10-15 cents a pound...
...There,” written and directed by Todd Haynes (“Far From Heaven”), is a brilliantly fresh film about the legendary life and music of Bob Dylan, complete with, needless to say, an amazing soundtrack. Six actors—Marcus Carl Franklin, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, and Ben Whishaw—play fictional characters that represent different epochs of Dylan’s life. Tellingly, none of them actually share Dylan’s name. “Woody Guthrie” is a boy attempting to define himself in terms...
...looks the least like him is a young black kid, Marcus Carl Franklin, who rides the rails and wanders the back country and finally pays the legendary visit to Woody Guthrie as he lies dying in a hospital. Everyone else - among them Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Christian Bale - just look pretty much like themselves...
...also have to be prepared to become an unwitting prop. If you're not careful, you can find yourself sitting on a hay bale, holding a handwritten sign, written not in your own hand, which says "Husbands for Hillary!" Sure, you can politely decline to hold a sign, wear a campaign sticker, clap, cheer or stomp. But there's nothing you can do about your face showing up weeks later in a campaign brochure or video, as part of a crowd of smiling, well-fed Iowans providing a handy backdrop for the candidate...