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...Viewed as a whole, the top awards spanned genres that represent commercial moviemaking as it is, was and would like to be. The "is": The Dark Knight, which has earned more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box office (in the process becoming the second highest grosser in film history, after Titanic), and which represents a big-budget action picture as only Hollywood can make them. The "would like to be": the message films Milk and The Reader, which hammer home Hollywood's liberal views on gays and its unslakable fascination with the Holocaust. And the "was": Slumdog. With...
...Hollywood nativists are rankled that the top prize and headlines went to a foreign movie, the feeling may be similar on the Indian subcontinent, where Slumdog's box office take hasn't even approached that of any robust local film. As pleased as they might be about the picture's international éclat, the folks in Mumbai also realize that the first "Bollywood" production to make a major impact at the Academy was written, produced and directed by Englishmen - subjects of the old Raj. In the 1980s, Gandhi, another film about Indians and made by colonialists, took Best Picture. This...
What are some implications of all this for retailers? I believe we have reached the apogee of the big box. Growing the store any bigger does not translate into the customer spending any more time or money. It is actually starting to be counterproductive. Walking into Home Depot and seeing 28 coffeemakers, ranging in price from $16.99 to $116.99, is an overwhelming sense of choice. So that the merchant is going to have to edit...
...campus.” Past Cultural Rhythms Artists of the Year include Will Smith, Matt Damon, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Jackie Chan. Proceeds from the show will go the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Tickets for Cultural Rhythms are available at the Harvard Box Office in the Holyoke Center. Cultural Rhythms representatives expressed their excitement for Aykroyd’s visit. “He’s a comedian and writer, so we’re excited to see what his creative mind will come up with next Saturday,” said Ayogu...
...Besides the academic ramifications of closing the library, there are also pressing social ramifications. Saturday is the only day people can check off the Widener box without the nagging guilt of unfinished assignments. Unlike Primal Scream, which happens but once a year, Widener was always there for us. But now we’ll have to plan our assignations around its budget cuts. And for people who rely on BoredatLamont for their romantic interactions, Saturday nights just got a lot lonelier. Everyone will have to find other places to do those things we always do in libraries, like having free...