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...movie--a long, violent fight between Aristotle and Charles Darwin--even though it meant having to take Nicolas Cage, who plays Kaufman, out to dinner. "Nicolas said it would never make the movie, and I couldn't even believe he was thinking this," Jonze says. He's even earnest about his absurdity...
...earnestness that gets everyone involved. When Orlean read Kaufman's script, she originally decided she didn't want her real name in the movie because halfway through the film, Kaufman gives up trying to write an unorthodox screenplay and goes conventional, which means the movie's Orlean sleeps around, gets homicidal and deals drugs. But after meeting with Jonze, she was onboard. "Spike seems really earnest and sincere. He's not trying to be postironic ironic. I got this feeling that this was a very human effort and not an effort to be cool," she says. "You feel like, 'What...
...long bumpy drive up the Fuladi Valley to another damaged school. An impromptu visit to a potato farmer, who proudly tells the Colonel his harvest was the best in years. Three more bridges, all of them recently collapsed and needing urgent replacement. A sit-down meeting with an earnest young Hazara who wants to know if the Chiclets can help him start up a computer training center in Bamiyan. (Col. Walker tells him to submit a written request...
This new push to internationalize the University began in earnest last spring with a Faculty vote to make it easier for students to study abroad...
Though the Crimson has already begun the year in fine fashion with its typical rout of traditional Ivy bottom-dwellers Cornell and Dartmouth, the season begins in earnest on Friday as Harvard travels to Brown. The Bears, who topped the Crimson in dual meets and the Ivies, will be the first real test of the season...