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...surprising. With the exception of The Patriot, his American Revolution drama, the director's big pictures have amassed nearly two-thirds of their theatrical revenue in foreign countries. Moviegoers are no more sophisticated overseas, and Emmerich plays to the universal demands for mega-hits: throw little people into a giant disaster, put all the major information in pictures, not dialogue, and make sure that stuff blows up great. With 2012 seemingly headed for a $500 million worldwide take (which it will need to earn back its gigantic budget), Emmerich will underline his status as the most successful openly gay director...
...It’s good you’re here now Johnny. Another candidate was here earlier, and he comes up to our door and sees our giant Bowman-Hysen sign, and I hear him go ‘No, let’s skip this door.’ It was so awkward,” Devine said. “Come on, let’s go upstairs. I’ll introduce you to some people...
...than childhood sentimentality. For decades, the U.S. held a comfortable position as ASEAN's third-largest trading partner. No more. China displaced America last year. Even with persuasion from the popular U.S. President, it will be hard to convince Southeast Asians that their futures are more tied to a giant across the Pacific than one closer to home. (See pictures of how Indonesia thrived under the dictator Suharto...
...unknown origins. If it had belonged to the author, as its nickname would suggest, it would undoubtedly be a keeper; however, it turns out it belonged to her second husband's second wife, and the university has no idea under what circumstances it was donated. Or what about a giant rhinoceros skull? Is that worth keeping? How about the samples of earth dug up from the English Channel, pre-Chunnel? Hundreds of beautiful hand-drawn lecture slides made by the scientist Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode? Or the slides of microscopic fossils, which don't seem to take...
Instead of giving $182 billion to insurance giant AIG, he said, the government should take such action as promising to buy 5,000 electric cars in 2013 and building electric charging stations along the highway system...