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...Worth it? Yes, but only with the Cruise Clause: Stars must not distract from the press for the film by talking about Scientology or jumping on Oprah's upholstery, and they can?t expect such a big cut of the grosses that the movie fails to be a moneymaker for the studio...
...video for their new single “Australia,” they’ve returned to the mundane. Director Matt McCormick casts the band as orange-jumpsuited hoodlums who hatch a plot of petty theft. Lead singer, songwriter, and tactician James Mercer directs the bandits as they distract car salesmen and steal the balloons attached to every car on the lot. The tune itself isn’t earth-shatteringly original, but it’s the sort of bouncy song that makes you want to be five years old again, dancing around in the living room with...
...moved from pure abstraction to representation. The exhibit is notable for featuring Léger’s early, very rare, and more purely Cubist work produced between 1912 and 1914. Filling just two rooms, the tightly focused collection doesn’t overwhelm the viewer or distract from the works themselves. One room holds the early and raw “Contrasts of Forms” series—most recently displayed at the University of Virginia—while the other contains a selection of Léger’s later and more characteristic work from Harvard?...
...their candidate hasn't changed, just his prospects. "The key difference is, hopefully, this is a winning campaign," says his chief strategist John Weaver. Trying to rekindle the old magic, they rearranged his schedule to put him back on the Straight Talk Express bus this month. But that could distract him from another goal in this critical period: building up his campaign coffers so that he has the financial muscle of a front-runner when the tallies are released for the first reporting period, which ends March...
Others have banned computers from their classrooms completely, arguing that they distract students and damage the classroom dynamic...