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...rapidly closing. Next year the focus is likely to turn to preventing a rerun of the real estate debacle. An exact repeat is already unlikely; bleeding banks have toughened lending standards, and the Federal Reserve is tightening its mortgage rules, squeezing out most of those "no doc" mortgage mills...
...about rehab - the great majority of our hip fracture patients get a week or so of intensive physical therapy as soon as they are medically stable - but Sandy would have nothing to do with it. "Please don't let them put me in the warehouse - I'm fine, doc - just need to get back to my own bed, feed the cat, catch up on the papers." I didn't press the rehab thing, figuring that the case managers, whose full-time job is patient-disposition, would deal with it. Maybe having a clear goal helped, because he did get better...
...subsisting for a month solely on food from McDonald's. That stunt generated the 2004 Super Size Me, which grossed a fat $11.5 million at the box office (on a lean $65,000 budget) and earned an Oscar nomination. The movie also allowed Spurlock to become his own little doc-conglomerate, hosting and producing the TV series 30 Days and lending his exec-producer imprimatur to such like-minded nonfiction films as The Third Wave (Americans in post-tsunami Sri Lanka) and What Would Jesus Buy? (on the super-SantaClausification of Christmas...
...speak to Scorsese's fervent belief in movies as music. You see this in his studio pictures: in the operatic intensity of the acting and the camerawork and in their use of music, from arias to doo-wop, to underline an emotion. But he's also done a political doc (the 1970 Street Scenes, about antiwar protests), a loving portrait of his parents (Italianamerican, in 1974), a study of a very colorful friend (American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, 1978), a doc on couturier Giorgio Armani (Made in Milan, 1990) and epic valentines to old American and Italian cinema...
...morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Kevin Kit Parker was driving through a rough neighborhood in Baltimore on his way to the Johns Hopkins bioengineering lab where he worked as a post-doc...