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...cast Sydney [Pollack] to make sure there would be someone who off-camera would have the possibility of dominating him or be a good combatant...
...they recycle all the junk, the location that surrounds them, they recycle themselves in a way, and their friends.” In creating a locally-inspired style that was coherent for the film, Gondry recycled the environs of Passaic, N.J., where the movie takes place. He instructed the cast and crew to use only those elements that Jerry and Mike might have been able to access by restricting his costume designers to shopping at Passaic stores, telling his actors not to re-watch the movies they were Sweding in the film, and casting about 300 Passaic residents...
...Pakistanis have shown a renewed commitment to participating in a democracy. Despite the threat of terrorism - a very real concern given recent attacks on political rallies and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto - over 45% of eligible Pakistanis turned out to cast their votes, considerably more than the number that voted in previous general elections in 2002 and 1997. Under the circumstances, this was an impressive level of engagement. And in terms of sheer numbers, it was massive: 36 million Pakistanis voted, more than the entire population of either Iraq or Afghanistan...
...bank lobbies, rec centers and libraries to vote. Some images are startling: 1,000 Prairie View A&M students, a traditionally African-American college in a rural area west of Houston, marched seven miles to the nearest early voting station. And in a state requiring no party registration to cast a ballot, two out of three early voters so far have asked for a Democratic ballot. That is where the battle is being fought: between a must-win Hillary Clinton and a surging Barack Obama...
This is an old story in other ways. There is a nostalgic cast to the race - Obama is running Austin television ads that are vaguely Woodstockian with smiling faces and young, casually dressed supporters cheering and waving. "We can save the world!" the graphic exclaims. In the Rio Grande Valley, now a booming trade center but once home to shabby migrant labor camps, Clinton is running ads featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the grandson of United Farm Workers icon Cesar Chavez. And the aging lion of the Democratic Party, U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy, has been holding rallies on college...