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...Forecasting prices, however, has become an increasingly inexact science for analysts, as prices in recent months have galloped ahead of their worst predictions. Says Oswald Clint, a London-based analyst for Sanford Bernstein: "A year ago, our predictions for November 2007 were about $50 to $62 dollars a barrel" - at least $35 short of Tuesday's price. The oil-research firm predicts that expanded production will bring oil prices back to $70 a barrel by 2010. But to Birol, that sounds optimistic...
They're a droll, quiet outfit; they don't argue or slam their flinty, flattopped manager Clint Hurdle or talk cosmically about the streak, which has propelled them to a place no one expected when the season began at the end of a snowy Colorado winter. "We're young but good players and a good team, and an organization headed in the right direction. I expected to win from Day One," the whip-armed Tulowitzki said...
...movie-star chump by directing and co-writing a crackling little detective film about child abduction, Gone Baby Gone. In poker, this is known as going all in. First, the movie is an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane, who also wrote Mystic River, which Clint Eastwood put on film to much critical acclaim. Comparisons are inevitable. Second, the movie features imperiled children, spectacularly vulgar language and the urban poor of Boston, none of which scream must-see. Third, he cast his younger brother Casey as the lead, a private detective hired to find the missing child. Unless...
...Last night, a few hours after learning of George's death, I flipped idly through TV channels. And there was George, in his final movie role, as Ryan Philippe's character 60 years later in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers. Gasping for air, a tube up his nose, a good man making needless apologies to a loving son, George was doing what many an actor finds himself doing: rehearsing his own death. It was just pretend - his usual consummate acting job. Dying on film, he lived again...
...Impossibly, I wanted this to be a making-of documentary, where Clint whispers, "Cut!" and George springs sprily out of bed and says cheerfully to the cast and crew, "Let's go out for a nightcap." And it's all happening right now, and forever...