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...book cop is too suspicious of local customs. As the avuncular chief (Jim Broadbent) tells him, "You come from a city where there's danger round every corner, and it's driven you round the bend." Nick's only ally is the chief's son Danny (Nick Frost, also from Shaun of the Dead), a Marmaduke-like patrolman whose love of American action films makes him think of Nick as Martin Riggs and Marcus Burnett combined, but with a nicer accent...
...have already done that. I'll just say that, to judge from the citations here, Wright and Pegg's favorite movie auteurs are ... themselves. The film teems with lines and situations from Shaun of the Dead. "What's the matter, Dann - never taken a shortcut before?" says Pegg to Frost before vaulting over some backyard fences; same as in the earlier film. Or, one guy: "You want anything at the shop?" Other guy: "Cornetto." Or, Frost (with inane bravado): "I'll drive." Also, on a quick trip back to London, Nick enters a store where the clerk is a zombie...
...program without sufficient support—only 19 students signed up, less than a fifth of the number that administrators expected. The problem, rather obviously, was that most students would rather take a longer vacation to decompress from the pressures of academic life than squirrel themselves away in a frost-encrusted dorm doing problem sets and essays or—worse yet—nothing worthwhile at all. The other alternatives for J-term activities—community service, research, or travel—would probably be much more alluring to undergraduates, but would likely require far greater financial support...
...Tarantino does offer an explicit poetic reference: one of the girls is supposed to give a lap dance to the first guy who comes up to her and quotes lines from Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (The QT version of that poem might end: "The road is kewl for this white trash / But I've a Challenger to smash /And miles to go before I crash...") But there's not much poetry, I mean of the pulp variety, in Death Proof. It doesn't show me much innovation, or much fidelity to the old grindhouse...
...going to get blamed for it," says mobile analyst Roger Entner of IAG Research. Banks, on the other hand, are hyper-cautious. "They are so conservative and so security conscious. They don't want to do anything that will lead to fraud," says Gerry Purdy, chief mobile analyst at Frost & Sullivan...