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...episode, Tokyo Drift) is to reunite the cast of the 2001 film: Diesel as superdriver Dominic Toretto, Paul Walker as FBI agent Brian O'Conner, Jordana Brewster as Dom's sister Mia and Michelle Rodriguez as his girlfriend Letty. Iconographically, the two male leads balance nicely, since Walker boasts California good looks - half surfer boy, half altar boy - and a face that reads as clean-shaven even with his careful stubble. And Diesel and M-Rod are a perfect pair. She showed off her muscular arms in Girlfight nearly a decade before America fixated on Michelle Obama's pythons, while...
...thinking plays into all the movies I make. When I first saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High, I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day. I didn't know anyone as funny as Spicoli, and we didn't grow up in California, and we had burnouts instead of surfers, but I could relate to working at a shitty job at the mall and poor Judge Reinhold having to dress up like a pirate to deliver food, and also Jennifer Jason Leigh getting an abortion, which was really sad. It was honest...
...suppose. But, beneath the furious roil of the economic crisis, a national conversation has quietly begun about the irrationality of our drug laws. It is going on in state legislatures, like New York's, where the draconian Rockefeller drug laws are up for review; in other states, from California to Massachusetts, various forms of marijuana decriminalization are being enacted. And it has reached the floor of Congress, where Senators Jim Webb and Arlen Specter have proposed a major prison-reform package, which would directly address drug-sentencing policy. (See pictures of stoner cinema...
...them seemed obsessed with the legalization of marijuana. The two most popular questions about "green jobs and energy," for example, were about pot. The President dismissed the outpouring - appropriately, I guess - as online ballot-stuffing and dismissed the legalization question with a simple: "No." (Read "Can Marijuana Help Rescue California's Economy...
...same time, there is an enormous potential windfall in the taxation of marijuana. It is estimated that pot is the largest cash crop in California, with annual revenues approaching $14 billion. A 10% pot tax would yield $1.4 billion in California alone. And that's probably a fraction of the revenues that would be available - and of the economic impact, with thousands of new jobs in agriculture, packaging, marketing and advertising. A veritable marijuana economic-stimulus package! (Read "Is Pot Good...