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...professor of art history, until she took a detour into film: "I realized that the great opportunity in film was that it was kind of a populist medium that could cross all class and cultural lines." She made The Loveless (1982) - hailed as "the thinking man's biker movie" - then went to Los Angeles to teach a course on B filmmakers of the '40s and '50s. She's been bending genres in Hollywood ever since. (See the best movies of the decade...
...crisis, whether it's a terrorist attack or a bank failure, they like to note, the government always gets bigger. "I'm not sure exactly why, but [Obama's] into this progressive movement," said Martin Michaels at an evening event in Rochester, N.Y. A silver-haired man dressed in biker gear and an unprintably anti-Obama T-shirt, Michaels added, "I don't think Obama's looking out for freedom, for the people."(See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...sleight-of-hand is also responsible for Bella’s visions of Edward—the apparitions emerge when Bella purposefully endangers her life, such as when she gets on the back of a biker-thug’s Harley, or when she jumps off a cliff. When Bella rides her own motorcycle, she hallucinates that Edward is following her. This scene is testimony to Stewart’s acting abilities: the motorcycle she was riding was nailed to a moving trailer, and when asked to “arbitrarily turn her head,” she panted longingly...
...mother too had been excited that night, spreading maps over the dining room table, commenting on our route. When she was in her 20s she had driven to California with a friend. They came across a rowdy biker rally in Sturgis, North Dakota, and my favorite part of the story is the motel itself that was like a biker paradise: bikers at the pool, tattooed and lounging, with girlfriends, wives and kids. They were still there when she left to get on the road in the morning. You see, traveling is my one inheritance...
...after my mother stayed with the bikers, she stopped at an overlook to take pictures. The pull-off was nearly empty. The only person there was a biker by himself all in dusty black, a wild beard, parked and marveling at the scenery. This is something that she remembers with a laugh and has told us often...