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...crashed into the Kirkland House library—said to be the oldest building in Cambridge—when a valet lost control of a patron’s car while making a left turn onto JFK Street around 8:30 p.m. last night. Five fire engines, an ambulance, a tow truck and a handful of police cars—all with lights flashing—cordoned off two blocks of JFK Street, as about 50 students and passersby looked on and a local news crew darted about the scene. The driver, whom police would not identify by name...
...masses at home, and, not surprisingly, the “unconditional support” of countries in the region. After 9/11, the Bush administration chose to take its ships and interests to other waters, and Latin America was left adrift. This was exemplified by Argentina’s 2001 crash, when democracy survived but the economic progress of a whole decade was razed along the governing administration...
...Oscar this year, cheap is chic. Four of the five films nominated for Best Picture cost under $15 million to make, less than a fifth of the average Hollywood budget. Of them, the very cheapest was Crash, which cost $6.5 million and earned six Oscar nods, including three for writer-director-producer Paul Haggis. Yet the film's domestic box-office total ($56 million) was higher than that of any of its laureled rivals when the nominations came out last Tuesday...
...about racial tension, they made bold decisions: to open the film in May and play it on 1,900 screens, get the cast on Oprah, then saturate the film community with 130,000 DVDs. "Nothing sells itself," says co-star and co-producer Don Cheadle, who was pleased when Crash became the right kind of controversial film--"the quintessential watercooler movie...
...favorite for the top awards. At least Haggis thinks so: "We all know that George [Clooney] and Bennett [Miller] and I and Steven [Spielberg] are going to be in the audience applauding Ang. But one always hopes we'll be up there for something." Maybe. So don't count Crash out. The little movie that could may have one last surprise in store...