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...When money is tight, it's also a good time for Hollywood's bulletproof brands, like Pixar (Wall E), Will Smith (Hancock) and Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder). "Whether it's an analgesic or a motion picture, you're putting your money into something familiar," says former studio executive David Weitzner, who teaches at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. This summer's old-is-new fare, like Indy, Steve Carell's Get Smart and the Sex and the City movie should all benefit from the recognition factor. But films with lesser-known pedigrees, like the graphic novel...
...that can control their emotions and stayed disciplined and stick to their gameplan will most likely be victorious,” MacDonald said. The closest individual match-up arguably occurs between the two men standing at opposite ends of the ice: sophomore goalie Kyle Richter and Cornell net-minder Ben Scrivens. Boasting the No. 1 and No. 2 save percentages in the ECAC, Richter’s .935 save percentage narrowly edges Scrivens .932. Both goalies also rank No.1 and No. 2 respectively in games started. Tonight’s game will be Richter’s first trip...
...question, one of the most dramatic episodes in American financial history. A famously scrappy Wall Street investment bank, Bear Stearns, went from seemingly healthy to dead meat in about five days. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, desperate to avoid a sudden collapse that might cause a full-fledged market panic, invoked a little-known 1930s legal provision to engineer a Sunday fire sale of Bear Stearns to banking giant JPMorgan Chase for a mere $2 a share. (Bear's stock price was $57 a week before, $171.51 in early...
What is your favorite article of clothing? Raphael Aryeh Ben Mordechai, Beit Meir, IsraelAt this moment: shoes...
Adams (Paul Giamatti) didn't catch many breaks. He wasn't tall and commanding like Washington, wildly gifted like Ben Franklin or silver-tongued like Jefferson--and, he notes, he doesn't have an inheritance, so he must work for a living as an attorney. This colors his personality; Giamatti plays him as a trudging bulldog, noble but vain, intellectual but provincial, idealistic but cautious. And it colors his politics, giving him a darker view of life than those of his colleagues with cleaner fingernails...