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...remade by Martin Scorsese and screenwriter William Monahan as The Departed. Chances are that, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the good cop, Matt Damon as the bad one and Jack Nicholson as the crime boss, this very entertaining, densely layered, just-short-of-fabulous melodrama will rustle up some sturdy box office business...
...tickets to games and leaving the impression in some messages that she occasionally didn't pay for them. White House officials are banned from taking gifts of more than $20, which would barely get you a cheap seat at any of these events, let alone a luxury box seat. Other Rove aides were shown to be in e-mail contact with lobbyists on Abramoff's staff, and Rove himself e-mailed Abramoff a few days before the 2000 elections, responding to a message from Abramoff noting that "Governor Bush is winning" by saying "Jack - I will rest much easier..." Abramoff...
...couple notes from Ricky Bobby; his crude ballad pinpoints just what the film industry has been lacking—excellence. In fact, the big studios have been giving us just about everything but excellence. “Snakes on a Plane,” anyone? Despite slightly better box office results this summer compared to last, movieland is still shaky territory. With quick big-screen-to-DVD turnaround, in-home theater options and technologies—On Demand got me through three grueling summer months in the Colorado suburbs—and higher-than-average ticket prices, Americans have fewer...
...politically inconvenient realities were fought on the baby name terrain. Wishing to quell an uprising by ethnically Kurdish Iranians in the north, the government banned Kurdish names. A Kurdish couple I know managed one for their baby, but only by showing up at the registry office with a giant box of pastry and a stack of cash for the name clerk...
...concerts and symposia from Oct. 12 through 14. It may seem far away, but tickets for students are on sale now, and free to the first 50 Harvardians who grab them. After those are gone, tickets will be $5 each. Tickets must be purchased in person at the Harvard Box Office. More information at http://www.bernsteinatharvard.org. Meanwhile, Daniel Barenboim, one of the world’s most eminent and controversial conductors, as well as one of its finest pianists, is in the midst of delivering six Charles Eliot Norton lectures on cultural issues, culminating next week. The Norton lectures...