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There was always a sweet bit of fiction in the notion that Ford (F) was so much better financially than GM (GM) or Chrysler that it could weather the global economic downturn no matter how brutal it turned. All of that magical thinking came to an end as the No.2 American car company said it would have to "restructure" its balance sheet, which has always been short-hand for finding a way to remain in business...
...Soon after Siegel and Shuster's Superman appeared, and a year later, Bob Kane's Batman - and, perhaps not coincidentally, right after the first science-fiction convention where Forrest J. Ackerman came dressed as a spacemen, thus inaugurating the pulp tribute costume - a group of citizens donned masks and gaudy couture and called themselves the Minutemen. Not so much groupies as avatars of the fictional superheroes, they spent World War II getting off on doing their truth-justice-and-the-American-way thing. Disbanded in 1944, they reconvened with some new personnel, and by the '60s were important factors...
...Maybe there's no way the rest of the film could match this opening, and for sure it doesn't. Snyder spends much of the movie's 2 hours and 40 minutes on the splatter of crushed limbs, the chatter of Strangelovean science fiction and the nattering of the obligatory romance. He also encourages a little festival of tone-deaf acting. Yet Watchmen has moments of greatness. It proves again that the action movie is where the best young Hollywood brains have gone to bring flesh to their fantasies...
...could wind up with a break. And what if I'm the one who causes his next fracture? And of course this is something these parents feel every minute of their lives. It was a really sort of jarring moment for me. (See the top 10 non-fiction books...
...British comic actor with a sense of physical comedy would work well.JW: This is tough. Maybe Julia Davis, 20 years ago?15. FM: Obviously, you two are absurdly talented individuals. But say you couldn’t do what you’re doing now (writing works of fiction and literary criticism). What do you wish you were really good at?JW: Playing the pianoCM: Just one? I wish I were a really good photographer...