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DJay (Terrence Howard) is the sort-of hero of Hustle & Flow, a hip-hop Star Is Born, a rappin' Rocky--and, in its own right, a parable of belief against all odds. At this year's Sundance festival, the movie, made for $3.5 million, copped critics' raves, the Audience Award and, from Paramount Classics/MTV Films, an astounding purchase price of $16 million, which included a $7 million deal for other films with co-producer John Singleton...
...said, "would mean a slow and painful death for the European sugar sector." One consolation: European confectionery and biscuitmakers say the new prices will make them more competitive. How sweet it is. - By Peter Gumbel Getting Posh In Prague Thanks to the likes of Easyjet and Sky Europe, the flow of budget-conscious tourists into Central and Eastern Europe is becoming a flood: visitors to Budapest are up 37% during the first quarter of 2005; international arrivals in Warsaw in March were up 35% to 509,000; and Serbia has announced $2.8 billion in subsidies to kick-start tourism there...
...powerful chemistry at work here is a leading indicator for politics more broadly. Politicians are spending a lot of time pondering the way the stars have learned to use single, powerful issues to tap into people's desire for a better world, the kind of yearnings that used to flow into party politics but now increasingly bypass it - as declining voter turnouts show. Speak to operatives from traditional parties in Britain and the U.S., and you hear frank admiration for the antipoverty campaigners allied to Geldof, Bono and Co. They are global, deeply media savvy and well connected. And they...
...tough guy finds himself in conflict with his tender, aesthetic side. We've been here more than a few times before: Golden Boy, Humoresque, James Toback's Fingers--of which the awkwardly titled The Beat That My Heart Skipped is an acknowledged remake. Not to mention the upcoming Hustle & Flow. You know the drill: chap earns his living in a low, muscular occupation but secretly yearns for a career as a musician...
...them get their jobs back, so fishermen can go back to the sea, farmers can go back to work on their land. The third is to maintain or to improve the level of trust of the donors so that they have full confidence in us, and so that the flow of money can be maintained...