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...Sweet Hereafter and Felicia's Journey. He has largely avoided the mainstream in recent years by continuing to make only the subtle, deeply unsettling films that have characterized his nearly 20 years behind the camera. Much of Egoyan's early work, which found a home on the film festival circuit, was obscure, edgy, microscopically budgeted and seen only by the most obsessive American art-house addicts...
...final, desperate plan to save the 88 lives on board. The plane seemed to be plummeting because a key mechanism had jammed in a position that was forcing its nose down. The crew radioed a company mechanic on the ground with an urgent plea: Were there any "hidden circuit breakers" that could cut off power to the horizontal stabilizer--the device they believed had taken deadly control of the plane? No, the mechanic replied, he didn't know of any. But as the plane temporarily stabilized, he signed off on an optimistic note: "See you on the ground...
Despite the 7,000-ft. plunge, the crew seemed to regain control. But moments later, they were reporting that the plane had a jammed stabilizer and that they were having "trouble maintaining altitude." When it was clear there were no circuit breakers to disable the stabilizer, the crew requested permission to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. They told air controllers they wanted to remain over water as they prepared for landing...
...find it odd that Indian actors or actresses just can't find their way onto the big screen (or the small screen. for that matter). In David Lean's A Passage to India, the only Hindu was played by a white man in brown face. In Short Circuit, Fisher Stevens added the needed laughs by yukking it up as an Indian with an accent so heavy that even the Indians in the audience couldn't understand him. Over time, it only got worse. Imagine if Malcolm X in Spike Lee's epic was played by a white man--that...
...Lacoste said Cambridge Electric has not yet determined the cause of the short circuit. The utility is also unsure why carbon monoxide gas from the fire leaked into the complex, which mostly houses Harvard graduate students and their families...