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...Speed Racer is the familiar fable of the little man fighting the big corporation, the inventor vs the exploiter, the young athlete whose talents would be used and abused by the establishment. In the Racer clan, Pops (John Goodman) is a mechanic turned car designer. Mom (Susan Sarandon) is the family's emotional center, a font of dewy wisdom. Older brother Rex (Scott Porter) is a champion racer who confides some of his Zen driving secrets to his younger brother Speed before mysteriously disappearing after a car crash. Years later, Speed (Emile Hirsch) is ready to carry on the Racer...
...schoolteacher and classmates speak with English accents. The time, never specified, could be today but is emotionally the '50s or early '60s. Mom and Pops Racer's three sons - Rex, Speed and the youngest, Spritle (Paulie Litt) - are each separated by about 15 years. So just never mind that Goodman 55, Sarandon 61, are more likely to be Spritle's grandparents than his parents. Or that Speed's forever girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci, her ivory face framed by a helmet of black hair that evokes either Louise Brooks or Moe Howard) has been taken in as a permanent boarder...
...time, so I was like, ‘What? Have you guys run out of ideas? Is this charity for me?’” Redman says. “But hey, I’m thankful.”—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...James Bond movie,” Benton said. “He would trip and die in the first scene, and then Miss Moneypenny would be left to clean everything up. That’s what interests me.”—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...years. After working with the Iraqi Ministry of Education at the Iraq embassy in Washington, D.C. last summer, Jafar had the idea to use such T-shirts to raise money for Iraqi higher education, aiming to defray as many expenses as possible for Iraqi students studying abroad. Elizabeth A. Goodman-Bacon ’10, who recently bought a shirt, says, “I think by selling the shirts here they’ll reach younger crowds in the college scene, and students are the perfect audience because the goal is higher education.” The T-shirts...