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...special kick is that the Pakistani-born Briton, now 35, manages to stake out his own life, more hopeful than his parents', not by becoming an assimilated Englishman, nor by turning to radical Islam, but by becoming, of all things, a Springsteenite. In the songs of the Catholic Bruce Springsteen, from New Jersey, the keema aloo-loving boy in working-class England finds a way to grasp his parents' dreams while also claiming new dreams of his own. From Springsteen, he breathes in a distinctly American sense of possibility, and the freedom of self-reinvention. Amid the regular guys...
John is the latest from David Milch (Deadwood, NYPD Blue), working with "surf noir" novelist Kem Nunn. It follows the troubled Yost surfing dynasty: Grandpa Mitch (Bruce Greenwood) is a retired ascetic; son Butchie (Brian Van Holt) is a champ turned junkie; grandson Sean (Greyson Fletcher) wants to surf competitively, over Mitch's objections. They meet John (Austin Nichols), a pompadoured stranger who may be an alien or God (his last name is Monad, a Gnostic reference). Actual, literal miracles begin happening...
...According to Bruce G. Schoenfeld ’82, editor of The Crimson’s sports board at the time of the stadium renovations, ths student body paid noticeably little attention to the project’s progress...
...Pacino in this movie, and previously you had Albert Finney and Julia Roberts. Are there any people you've approached who have actually said no? CLOONEY: There is one. Bruce Willis turned down the first one. BARKIN: Whose part? CLOONEY: Actually, it was mine. He was supposed to be Danny Ocean, and he did end up doing the second one. I think he regretted not being in the first. But otherwise, pretty much anytime you go to someone with this, they sign on. We couldn't believe Al wanted...
...What was your favorite baseball team growing up? -Bruce McCoy, Franklin Hills, Calif. I don't really have a favorite team. I was watching baseball when I was like 12 or 13, and I was watching the World Series. My father made me watch because I didn't have an inclination to watch TV. That day, I saw the Twins playing, they won the World Series. Kirby Puckett made that catch, and since then, he was my favorite baseball player...