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...film doesn't pass judgment on its characters; nobody's forced into redemption. And Clooney responds to this maturity with the most nuanced performance of his career. He gets inside Ryan because, in a way, he already lives there: he too is a traveling man with an aversion to commitment. Clooney has always ridden high on the confidence that people will buy anything he pitches--even a savory comedy-drama with a tart undertaste. Odds are that the great salesman's work in Up in the Air will create, among audiences and Oscar voters alike, a lot of satisfied customers...
Also surprising was Rodney Reynolds’ three-yard touchdown run with 4:43 left in the first quarter. The senior tailback’s touchdown was the first of his career and Yale’s only one on Saturday. Reynolds’ previous action against Harvard had all come in JV games...
...Michael Lewis's bio of Michael Oher, a troubled black youth, adopted by a white couple, who became a college football star and NFL rookie), The Blind Side would have won the box-office race almost any other fall weekend, and gave Sandra Bullock the biggest opening of her career. Also impressive was the $11 million amassed by the African-American drama Precious in only 629 theaters. (New Moon played on 4,024 screens.) Precious now looks to join Paranormal Activity as the year's top indie hits, and should have sturdy legs right up to Oscar night. (Read TIME...
...first career touchdown for Reynolds, a three-year JV player, and was part of a breakout day for the Bulldogs’ rushers...
Yale sophomore Alex Thomas had his first career 100-yard rushing performance, finishing with 124 yards on 26 carries, and the Bulldog ball carriers combined for 169 yards—75 more than they had averaged coming into the contest...