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...including Platoon and The Last Emperor, John Daly helped boost the careers of directors such as Oliver Stone and Roberet Altman, as well as actors Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves and Julia Roberts. Daly, who began his career in his hometown of London, created Hemdale, an independent film company, with Blow-Up star David Hemmings. Together they produced more than 100 films that earned upwards of $1.5 billion. Daly...
...English, among other talents, are adept at nurturing their grudges. How else does one explain the enduring enmity toward Guy Fawkes, a conspirator in a plot to blow up Parliament in 1605? Some four centuries after Fawkes was caught, tortured and executed for his role in a scheme that never came to fruition, Britons still celebrate his demise each Nov. 5 by burning his likeness in effigy and setting fireworks ablaze...
...Fernández accused Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini Wilson, a Key Biscayne resident who collaborated with the FBI to secure the conviction of his former associate Frank Duran in Miami yesterday, of "being paid to say what he says." But that's unlikely to help soften the latest blow to a government reeling from a drastic fall in public approval ratings, and a loss of confidence in Argentina's peso...
...launched the Airplane!, Naked Gun and Hot Shots! franchises and took over and revived the Scary Movie series. Moore probably doesn't feel flattered, since An American Carol depicts its lead character, one Michael Malone, as a bumbling, politically myopic slob who gets swindled into a plot to blow up Madison Square Garden. But in offering Malone a re-education in "patriotism" and letting him survive the movie, it's nicer to Moore than the Trey Parker-Matt Stone marionette movie Team America: World Police was. In that one, Moore was bent on destroying Mount Rushmore and so became...
...vowed to “fight tooth and nail to keep it going.” But he can only do so much alone. The Cambridge community is already feeling the pinch of a slowing economy. Adding on the weight of Ballot Initiative One would likely prove a deadly blow...