Word: collared
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...Bill Ford, great-grandson of the auto company's founder, take on this responsibility when he could have left it to hired professionals? It helps to understand that he is a man of epic contradictions. His family practically invented the auto industry, not to mention blue-collar consumerism. Brilliant, cantankerous Henry Ford made the first mass-produced car, the Model T, and paid workers enough so they could afford to buy one. That makes great-grandson Bill industrial royalty: he comes from a competitive, dynastic clan that cannot be separated from the nameplate on your Mustang. But he also...
Bubble is, in a few ways, Soderbergh's most radical and invigorating experiment yet. He made it for peanuts in blue-collar towns on the Ohio--West Virginia border, casting in the leading roles locals who had never acted before. He shot it (himself, under the name Peter Andrews) in three weeks with digital cameras. And if you're wondering where you can find Bubble, the answer is kind of everywhere: on Jan. 27 in the Landmark theater chain, on the HDNet Movies cable-TV channel and on Jan. 31 on DVD. It's the first film with a three...
...party seems to be rallying behind Olmert. The wealthy, elegantly dressed 60-year-old attorney with a taste for Havana cigars long ago lost touch with his old, blue-collar Likud constituency. Like Sharon, he has moved far from his hard-right roots to a shrewd pragmatism, becoming an outspoken advocate of separation from the Palestinians. But he lacks his mentor's charisma, military record and popularity with the public...
...movie of shifting identities, Bello is the one stable character, the rock in a hard place. The clarity and power she brought to the role won her a New York Film Critics Circle award and a Golden Globe nomination. It is a nice step up for the blue-collar kid from Philly, who distinguished herself on E.R. and as William Macy's girlfriend in The Cooler. "I had my first dress fitting last night," she says, beaming. "I was like Cinderella...
...post offense, which had been weakened by the loss of star center Elise Morrison early in the year with a season-ending injury. Harvard missed defensive stalwart Christiana Lackner, a junior who was injured in practice on Friday.Dartmouth forward Sydney Scott—a “blue collar worker,” said Delaney-Smith—finished with 24 points and 11 rebounds. For the crowd of 1342, the atmosphere was charged with the anticipation of yet another classic between the two schools.“It was definitely nerves in the first half,” Rollins...