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...expecting "Titans," I saw a moody, dark, seemingly intelligent piece that could be a more commercial descendent of past moody Fox dramas like "Profit." An additional encouraging sign: the creator turns out to be Mike White, the writer and creepy star of last summer's haunting "Chuck and Buck." (Also a former "Freaks and Geeks" writer, which with Apatow makes two "F&G" alums - always a good sign for a fall schedule.) Final encouraging sign: The cast includes Martin Donovan and Phillip Baker Hall, who are sure to up the series' charmingly skeevy and regally threatening components, respectively...
...Republican pollsters are finding - and Democrats are counting on it to be true - that not only are Americans wary about a wholesale trampling of the environment, they strongly suspect that their current energy woes have a lot to do with profiteering energy companies that are making such a good buck in these days of economic slowdown...
...After Harvard Film Archive staff failed to poster an outside kiosk earlier this year, Harvard Film Archive manager Julie A. Buck recalls, Killip left a large hand-written note on the wall, saying, “this is the most blatant show of incompetency, even for you people.” One staff member complained directly to Ervin that Killip told three staff members he watched them “all the time...
...said Wednesday, "As director, I have taken responsibility. The buck does stop with me." But he then proceeded to blame everyone else. He even argued that the discovery petition from McVeigh?s defense lawyers was unusually broad, which is a strange tack to take. He then cited examples of misinformation and various miscommunications between field agents and command posts...
...Nothing,” Buck answered. “It’s like a scrambled egg, and there’s no way to unscramble...