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...watched, from very distant sidelines, as Mel and his people dithered with inconsequential projects. Two of these, a movie called Braveheart andwhat was the name of the other one?The Passion of the Christ, bombed miserably at the box office. While I felt sorry for him, I thought, Well, Old Shoe, you really have only yourself to blame. You could have been a star. You could have been a player...
...predicts that "the Rada will end up split the same way as society." Those fault lines deepened last autumn, when Yushchenko and Tymoshenko, one-time comrades-in-arms who spearheaded the orange revolution, traded accusations of betraying the cause. Their rift will now play out at the ballot box. "It's like choosing between mother and father when the family breaks up," says record-label boss Doroshchuk. As often happens in divorce cases, a third party may benefit. A pr activist says, baldly: "We're preparing to grab the rewards of our political comeback." The party's official program...
...dozens of darkened rooms in cities across Asia, you will find next year's box office hits taking shape. Animation studios throughout the region house hundreds of works in progress on behalf of the biggest names in entertainment, from Disney to DreamWorks and Warner Bros. Market research firm Digital Vector estimates that last year Western studios commissioned $2 billion in animation contracts from studios predominantly in China, India, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. But for all that Asian input, animated films inevitably "feel" Western. That's because the Western studios dominate the creative process, typically providing the story...
...hidden until now. The exhibit opened last week at the Cambridge Arts Council, and it profiles art made on an almost preposterously small scale by 11 artists from the New York and Cambridge areas.Small boats made from coffee spoons and matchsticks, unfinished model cars, vintage erector sets, little glass boxes full of tiny girls playing cat’s cradle—the exhibit takes intimate and treasured objects, often the outgrowth of childhood obsessions, and places them in the public eye. The gallery literally provides magnifying glasses for the viewers, allowing visitors to examine the most precise details...
...case, the officer would have been acting outside his bounds had he looked for drugs in the small nooks and crannies of the room.“If I say I’m looking for elephants, I can’t go looking in a tool box,” Oliver says. “If I say I’m looking for music, I couldn’t look in a shoe box because there wouldn’t be a stereo in there. It limits the scope of what [an officer] can look...