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That's the appeal of 3:10 to Yuma, which opened Sept. 7 and was the box-office champ of its first weekend. Like the 1957 film, it's about Dan Evans (Bale), a family man on a failing farm who lost a leg in the Civil War. He sees a payday, and a chance for redemption in his son's eyes, by escorting the killer Ben Wade (Crowe) to justice. Screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas have opened up the action to include a trek in which Wade outsmarts or just kills most of his captors; and there...
...have to rattle the cage." Like Tiger Woods in golf, Federer preys on his opponent's reverence for him. Perhaps it's no coincidence that the player who has had the most success against Federer, Nadal, is the purveyor of the flying fist-pump. Says seven-time Grand Slam champ Mats Wilander: "Be a bit of an a--hole out there...
...resounding choice to repeat as Ivy League champions in 2007, ranking first in the preseason poll by claiming all but two first-place votes. But here’s the bad: only once since the turn of the century has the media successfully picked the eventual champ...
...poll tabbed Penn to finish second in the league, while the Crimson is picked third. The Quakers and Harvard each earned one of the two first-place votes not garnered by the Bulldogs, while 2006 co-champ Princeton ranks fourth in the preseason poll. Cornell is fifth and Columbia sixth, while Brown, just two years removed from an Ivy title, is the media’s pick to finish seventh. Dartmouth rounds out the picks in last place...
Instead, he says that the movie explores the personalities of the stuttering underdog Hal, the overly ambitious debate team champ Ginny, and Hal’s friend Heston, who all deal with the absurdities of life in their own characteristic ways...