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...Tale, he told me, "They put my face on a poster with 'He Will Rock You' written underneath it, which I certainly didn't think I was going to.. and what if I didn't?" He added, "That freaked me the f--- up. That's where I really felt like my destiny was in somebody else's hands, and it was all being masterminded." The role in Brokeback, a sheep rancher trying to come to terms with his homosexuality, attracted him because of its complexity - and because it contrasted with his Hollywood "image." "It was going...
...night before the South Carolina primary, the only optimist aboard John McCain's Straight Talk Express was state chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham. "I feel as good about this election," said Graham, "as I've ever felt about any election before." McCain - who was famously burned in South Carolina in 2000 after his New Hampshire victory, when a whisper campaign and George Bush's dominance of the state's Republican party structure combined to deliver a crushing blow - was openly nervous. He even asked his staff to switch his exit song at rallies from confident, macho stuff like the Rocky theme...
...course, Eliot was writing metaphorically about a culture that he felt was exhausted and dying, but with the advent of the atom bomb, the end of the world got a lot more literal. (Eliot later confessed that he wouldn't have written the same lines after the coming of the H-bomb.) One of the cultural aftershocks of the bombing of Hiroshima was the awakening of Godzilla and the Japanese monster movie as a way of reckoning with the nightmare of U.S. atomic weapons. "Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears," says J.J. Abrams...
...Rodney King being beaten. And that was long before Sept. 11 and YouTube. Grainy, unstabilized footage gives us a sense that what we're watching is real?that the hand brake is off, that we won't be protected by the bland, safe conventions of a studio movie. "I felt like there had to be a way to do a monster movie that's updated and fresh," says Abrams. "So we came up with the YouTubification of things, the ubiquity of video cameras, cell phones with cameras. There are hundreds of incidents and images out of Iraq on handheld video...
...Daniel arap Moi. Yet on Thursday, the man with a reputation as a fiery, charismatic populist struck a sour note when he told reporters that his advisers had warned him that it was too dangerous to try to march, even though central Nairobi had been quiet. Asked how he felt not being able to join his supporters, Odinga replied: "I feel great...