Word: crewed
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...Brokeback Mountain. Like the first, it returns the Taiwanese native to China for a tale of political intrigue; like the second, it locates the passion, melancholy and power struggles of two complicated people. In a new book that includes the movie's original story, script and comments by the crew, assistant director Roseanna Ng calls Lust, Caution "another action movie," but with "no martial masters from different schools. ... All we had were one bed and two actors...
Before reality TV involved writers, immunity challenges and Paris Hilton, there was the Loud family. A public-television crew spent hundreds of hours in 1971 with a "typical" California family that proved to be anything but. Midway through the 12-hour cinema-verité series, paterfamilias and executive Bill Loud and wife Pat decided to split up. Their son Lance was casually introduced into the gay social scene of Greenwich Village in what would remain one of the most matter-of-fact treatments of a homosexual TV "character" for decades. The series raised what seem like--in the Big Brother...
...punishing economic situation may have one unexpected benefit: it could re-energize Burma's hobbled opposition, a motley crew of NLD politicians, '88-era student leaders and labor activists. After the democracy movement was crushed 19 years ago, many opposition leaders left for exile or went underground. Others, like Suu Kyi or poet turned activist Min Ko Naing, were jailed for long stretches. Burmese dissidents may have gained a martyr-like fame abroad, but their grand ideals of freedom and democracy resonated less with a public just struggling to feed itself. Yet in recent months, the opposition has started addressing...
...think, "Oh, good, a cop." I couldn't really stand up. I couldn't really move my leg. So they pick me up, and they ask, "Can you walk?" I say, "Barely." He says, "Let's go," and we made it down to a grounds' crew office. A Major League Baseball authenticator checked the ball, put a little sticker on it, took a picture, then that...
Leadership by those who have actually served in Iraq would be infinitely preferable to that of the prevaricating crew of Vietnam shirkers and chicken hawks who "led" us into this appalling war in the first place...