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...Stodgy types might dismiss these last five as genre films - sophisticated updates of the cartoons and B-movie action fodder with which Hollywood used to corral the kiddies at Saturday matinees. But, first of all, those unpedigreed items today outshine much of the solemn epics produced in the '30s and '40s. And second, the five chosen films of 2008 were all examples of a different kind of genre: the nobility-in-distress art-house drama. Ever since the mid-'90s, when Miramax Films' Harvey Weinstein figured out how to win Oscars by assiduously promoting movies of elevated angst, the ceremony...
...Edward C. Forst ’82 may not be known for his intimidating stature, but it has proved useful fodder for his self-effacing sense of humor...
...spotlight, in closed meetings held high in lobbied skyscrapers; where procedural minutiae are the one and only way, and the will of the judge is to be revered and respected, such activities are seen as highly iconoclastic, and even destructive. On the blogosphere, the quirky moves are dynamic fodder, taking on their own classification—“Nessonalia” or “Nessianic influences,” they have been called. Even to the students who work for and admire him, some of Nesson’s schemes have seemed extremely strange. “There...
...through the event, the conversation veered away from war reporting to a discussion about the complications of attractiveness in the journalism business. In a Washington Post profile last year, Logan, who recently re-married in Nov. 2008, complained that her life was being reduced to “tabloid fodder.” And at Kirkland on Friday, she acknowledged that while she has attracted undue attention because of her blonde hair and good looks, she wants to be judged based on the quality of her work. “Being a journalist is an extension of what I believe...
...shout-out heard around the world: Texas' Republican governor Rick Perry's praise for his state's tea-party protesters, accompanied by not-so-veiled references to a potential Lone Star State secession. The remarks prompted glaring red-website headlines and instant fodder for cable-TV pundits. But for Texas political insiders, Perry's waving of the flag of secession was just the latest volley in a Texas-size Republican civil war - a face-off between Perry and his potential rival for the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nomination, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. (See pictures of tea-party tax protests across...