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Fifteen years ago, Tamil rebels overran a marshy strip along Sri Lanka's northwest coast. Pooneryn became a headache for Colombo: a strategic redoubt, shored up with artillery, that shielded the base of operations of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.), one of the world's most dogged insurgent groups. But on Nov. 15, government forces seized Pooneryn, giving Colombo full control over its western seaboard for the first time in over a decade. The government called for a week of celebrations...
...trying to win over skeptics. His mission is not to defend the worthiness of Scarface but to establish the boundaries of this drug opus' lasting and profound influence. As a historian, Tucker is fair, acknowledging the film's many faults and the gradual emergence of a vast, underground fan base. And he spends a good many chapters detailing the ways in which the movie reached beyond the theater, inspiring everyone from TV producers to music executives to criminals...
...they learned to do with their macho comic-book movies, studios making films from more female-skewing properties have begun assiduously courting the alpha fans, the diehards who get the buzz started through their blogs and podcasts. "From the beginning, we were very focused on signaling to the fan base that this film would be everything they wanted," says Summit CEO Rob Friedman. That meant keeping Meyer involved in script and casting decisions as a custodian of her original girl-meets-vampire vision. Early on, for instance, the author put her foot down to preserve certain details that were important...
Boccuzzi says her store has a strong local customer base and has been very steady in its sales. Instead, the closing may come about because of the building in which the Brattle Street store sits...
...Harvard from that distance seems to be quite useful.FM: When you wrote “Things Fall Apart”, did you have any idea that it would have the impact that it has?Achebe: No, it was impossible to have any such view because there was nothing to base it on. It had not been done before, exactly what I had a mind to do, so, I was hoping it would work, but that was about all. In other words, I wouldn’t have committed suicide if at the end of it they said...