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...Crimson opened the season with a pair of nonconference wins over Holy Cross and William and Mary, the second coming on a triple-overtime buzzer-beater from co-captain Jeremy Lin that found its way onto ESPN’s SportsCenter...
...mean, come on fellow Chatrouletters. No, I do not want to see some greasy wife-beater-wearing man-animal playing with himself every third time I press the “Next” button. No, I do not want to get paired up with some prepubescent munchkin who claims that he happens to go to Harvard...
...longer such a rare phenomenon. Recently, Mark McGwire (performance enhancer), David Letterman (wife cheater), Chris Brown (girlfriend beater), John Mayer (N word user) and even the reclusive Florida Tiger (serial wife cheater) have all tried to navigate their way across the Boulevard of Remorse to the safe shoulder of public forgiveness. But it's still a big enough deal that when men apologize, it's broadcast live on TV. For some, national coverage is not enough. On Feb. 24, Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota, flew halfway across the planet to apologize in Washington: "When the cars are damaged...
That also makes Avatar a throwback to ancient movie days, when films about men and women seduced the mass audience. And because it works splendidly as spectacle and love story, Cameron's picture is worthy of comparison to the great old epics. The world beater is also a heartbreaker, if you just open your eyes...
James Cameron's enviro-sci-fi epic is such a blockbuster, a world-beater, a galaxy dominator, that other movies feel they've won the Super Bowl if they can earn more than Avatar on their opening day. That's happened just three times in the month it's been in theaters: on Dec. 23 with Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel; on Christmas day with Sherlock Holmes; and this past Friday. The Book of Eli, a postapocalyptic Western about a martial artist whose greatest artillery is his copy of the Bible, took in $11.7 million that day, beating...