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...playwrights moonlighted in the movies. As a writer whose crime novels inspired a couple dozen movies (seven of them French), Donald Westlake, 76, could have retired with honors in the 60s, after Godard turned The Jugger into Made in USA and The Hunter became John Boorman's Point Blank. In the 70s he owned the comedy-caper genre, for what that's worth, with The Hot Rock, Bank Shot and Hot Stuff. He wrote scripts based on his own novels and those of other crime writers, incl. Jim Thompson's The Grifters (Oscar nomination) and Patricia Highsmith's Ripley Under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Corliss's 2008 Entertainment Death Reel | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...Westlake, he chronicled the misadventures of hapless criminal John Dortmunder (played by Robert Redford in the film version of The Hot Rock); as Stark, he penned the Parker novels, about a ruthless professional thief, whose screen incarnations include Lee Marvin in Point Blank and Mel Gibson in Payback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donald E. Westlake | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...score 3-0.The game also marked junior John Riley’s first collegiate start in goal, as he finished the night with 25 saves.Though challenged in the first period during two UAH power plays, Riley kept the game scoreless, stopping five shots—two coming from point-blank deflections.“He works hard and had a great game for us. Unfortunately our defense couldn’t back him up,” Biega said. “Those three goals should never have gone in if we had had that sense of coverage...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Early Momentum Doesn’t Carry Through | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...score 3-0. The game also marked junior John Riley’s first collegiate start in goal. Riley finished the night with 25 saves. Though challenged in the first period during two UAH power-plays, Riley kept the game scoreless, stopping five shots, two coming from point-blank deflections.“He works hard and had a great game for us. Unfortunately our defense couldn’t back him up,” Biega said. “Those three goals should never have gone in if we had had that sense of coverage...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Stumbles on Wisconsin Visit | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

Perhaps it's residual behavior from the campaign. Obama was something of a blank slate coming into the primary season one short year ago, and he used a loose network of "advisers" to draw politically convenient pictures of himself for voters. When he needed to look strong on Israel, for example, he brought in Dennis Ross, a former top negotiator who has sided with Israel in policy disputes over recent years. When he wanted to look conservative on money matters he tapped the guru of anti-inflation policy, Paul Volcker. (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind Obama's Rightward Outreach? | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

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