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...hand in that damn paper early, and call my mom on the way back to Mather to take...
...that’s what we did. You’re gonna lose when you do. We had three fumbles and lost two picks. I mean I don’t think anyone in the country can win that game, and if you can, you’re damn good...
...Hollywood slot system for black comics. "Will Smith has a slot," he says. "Martin Lawrence has a slot. Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, they all have slots. I needed to get a slot." (Foxx says this with no rancor; he believes white actors have it tougher because "there's so damn many of them.") He read for the Rod Tidwell role in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise (for which Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar), but even after Oliver Stone gave him a breakout part as a rookie quarterback in Any Given Sunday--reportedly because first choice Sean (P. Diddy) Combs...
...predicting the future so difficult? After all, if history is just one damn thing after another, shouldn't the future be more of the same? But over and over again, even our most highly educated guesses go disastrously wrong. (Here's Coco Chanel on the miniskirt, in 1966: "It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming...
...even worse than some 19th century critic talking about a naked lady. At least that critic was aspiring to a discussion of meaning, even if he was only applying an a priori cultural norm. The most I can do right now is admit that the Disney Hall looks pretty damn cool and wax poetic about my experience of it. Of course I’m not really planning to retreat into nostalgia for the unproblematic meaning of the past, but I don’t intend to spend my future passing judgments on what’s cool and what?...