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...Thus did a film critic survive his day in civvies, catching three ordinary, not awful movies. At a film festival, I might see five or seven films from the world's banquet of arty would-be masterpieces. None of this weekend's have aspirations other than to divert audiences and make a few bucks, both of which goals they have already achieved. That's the saving grace of Hollywood: it can attain a fairly high level of mediocrity - junk food that tastes pretty good...
...last undefeated team drops a game (as the New England Patriots did in losing to the Giants in the Super Bowl in February), Spurrier breaks open a cold beer with an assistant coach when the last "defeated" team finally gets a win. "Plus, I've gotten plenty of corny banquet jokes out of it," Spurrier says...
...first World Science Fiction Convention in Manhattan - both dressed in space suits. (Trekkies, now you know who originated that imaginative eccentricity.) In a 1996 interview with Ed Grant of the New York City cable access show Media Funhouse, Ackerman recalled that 165 people attended the confab. "We had a banquet so expensive that only 29 of us could afford it," he told Ed. "I couldn't even afford to lend the money to Ray Bradbury, 'cause it was one dollar a plate. Of course no food, you understand, just a dollar for a plate." Forry wore the spaceman outfit around...
...Washington G-20 Gluttony Delegates at the summit on the world financial crisis are drawing fire for their luxurious banquet, which included quail, lamb and bottles of 2003 Shafer Cabernet Hillside Select that can cost...
...students at Harvard Law School who commit to working five years in public interest law received an enthusiastic first response—far more so than its optimistic proponents expected. Over 110 first-year students participated in a non-binding sign-up for the Public Service Initiative at a banquet earlier this month—50 percent over the targeted number, according to Law School Dean Elena Kagan. The graduating class of 2011 will be the first class eligible to have the full amount of third-year tuition waived under the program. “On one hand, it?...