Word: copping
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...film intended to be precisely 11 min., 9 sec. and one frame long. Some were poignant (Sean Penn's, on a man living in the shadow of the Towers), some funny (Idrissa Ouedraogo's parable of African boys who spot an Osama bin Laden look-alike and try to cop the $25 million ransom). Several (from England, Bosnia, Egypt and Israel) pointed fingers at the U.S., saying, in effect, other countries have suffered atrocities for decades, so welcome to the club, America. No surprise that the film has opened in Europe...
Even as the water disappears, newcomers to subdivisions in southwestern Montana are demanding their fair share of it. "As water gets short, tempers get shorter," says Loble. "To prevent anarchy on the streams, there needs to be a water cop." Thanks to Loble's careful oversight and the water court's new electronic measuring devices, which make sure that upstream users don't hog all the river flow, more people in Montana got water this year than in 1988. Sometimes, Loble says, just holding a meeting is all it takes to get two disputing parties to work together. And other...
Parents like the fact that their kids finally have real role models, not radioactive rock stars and bionic athletes. Being a cop or a fire fighter is now less a trade than a calling. Leaving Shea Stadium after a New York Mets game one summer afternoon, an 8-year-old boy with a baseball glove approaches the cops directing traffic and asks one to sign it. "Don't you want a ballplayer's autograph? Why a cop's?" the officer asks. The boy responds, "Because you helped save the world...
Newman and Patel were developing an enormously effective legal chemistry. They share a gluttonous appetite for work, and they make a natural good cop-bad cop team. "Our personalities fit together. He's the nice one," she admits. "I'm very aggressive. He calms me down." They worked out a division of labor, splitting up the petition into chunks according to who had expertise in what, swapping drafts and editing each other's work. "We've pulled some fairly close to all-nighters," says Patel. "Things where we say, 'We just have to do X, and we don't leave...
...full of sexists is perhaps the most believable part of the whole film.) Kung fu flick aficionados will recognize Mok's character from roles played by Michelle Yeoh in the early 80s and 90s. Mok even does a backflip through glass as Yeoh did in 1985's Super Cop...