Word: furiouser
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...backing an unproven property, instead greenlight sequel after sequel to their few profitable action franchises. Last year’s summer slate was the worst example yet of this trend, featuring sequels to The Matrix, Charlie’s Angels, X-Men, Terminator, Bad Boys, The Fast and the Furious and Tomb Raider—a bunch of exercises in money-burning, most of them roundly reviled by critics and many lapsing from the public consciousness even before they came out on DVD (the only impact that the second Charlie’s Angels movie made was to remind...
...shortage of intelligence in Hollywood; there’s just a shortage of talent. Harvard’s contribution to the summer scene has made that blindingly clear; we’ve spawned the presumably intelligent writers and/or directors of XXX, The Fast and the Furious, Wild Wild West, Terminator 3, Cats and Dogs, Bruce Almighty, Daddy Day Care, Blue Crush, Halloween: Resurrection and more. Hollywood needs to weed out all of its dead wood, be they Harvard-trained or not, and find writers who can make some kind of memorable contribution to the medium. I wish we could just...
...executed an unrehearsed pratfall. Talking to reporters in Shanghai, Chan called the election "the biggest joke in the world." In Taiwan, Chan's remarks got supporters of President Chen Shui-bian to stop debating the poll results and focus on savaging Jackie instead. "Old people should retire," vented one furious participant on an Internet bulletin board. "Chan looks limp and wrinkled, lacking proper manners in his 50s." Wrote another: "He's an ignorant person making ignorant comments, and a poor Hong Konger who knows nothing about democracy." Chan's father was a secret agent for the Kuomintang on the mainland...
...goal on 32 shots through 40 minutes of play. In the third, though, the wheels came off the wagon. Staked to a 4-1 lead, Grumet-Morris and the Harvard’s defense could not stop Maine’s momentum; the Black Bears mounted a furious comeback, scoring four unanswered goals and sending Harvard down to a 5-4 defeat...
...night of Friday, March 26, Harvard’s hot streak was halted, and the Crimson was shown the door of the NCAA Tournament by No. 1 Maine. After staking Harvard to an early lead, the Black Bears mounted a furious third period comeback, overcoming a 4-1 deficit and stunning the Crimson with...