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...though it would be unseemly for the writer-director to want still more booty, he may well reap gold, in the form of statuettes for Best Picture and Best Director, on Oscar night. At the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 17, Cameron was a semisurprise winner as Best Director, besting his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated for The Hurt Locker. That exemplary Iraq war drama, which won most of the critics' awards, earned just $12.7 million in its domestic release and $3.4 million abroad, for a worldwide total of $16.1 million - less than...
According to a recent Boston Globe article, the cadets at the Randolph Regional Police Training Academy had invited Crowley to speak at their upcoming graduation ceremony in April. But according to Crowley's brother Daniel, the idea was vetoed by state officials at the request of Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick '78 because Crowley would be too controversial...
...northern suburbs of Boston. As a youth, he was arrested for shoplifting. He credits the judge, Samuel Zoll, for setting him straight, in part by making him write a 1,500-word essay on what his life would be like in jail. Brown told the Boston Globe: "The other day I was at Staples, and something was in my cart that I didn't pay for. I had to bring it back because ... I thought of Judge Zoll...
...were Brown's strengths as a fresh, energetic and appealing candidate who stood out in contrast to his Democratic opponent. State attorney general Martha Coakley seemed to take the race so much for granted that she barely bothered to campaign until it was too late. Asked by the Boston Globe about how few campaign appearances she was putting in, she made a dismissive reference to a Brown campaign video: "As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands...
...Wexler, William F. Cody, E. Stewart Williams. The names may draw blank stares for most people, but in Palm Springs these groundbreaking architects are the hallowed icons of 1950s and '60s design. They are referred to in hushed reverence the way national founders are in other parts of the globe. (Frey, in fact, is receiving his star this year on the Palm Springs walk of fame.) These trailblazers of cool minimalism found the ideal petri dish in midcentury Palm Springs: an anything-goes locale then flush with postwar affluence, forward-thinking Californian optimism and giddy Hollywood clients willing to take...