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...unambiguous evil as the movies have lately offered. And Brolin is his perfect foil. He's terrific as a totally twisted cop in American Gangster, but he's equally good as a totally innocent good ole boy here. All right, trying to make off with someone else's ill-gotten gains is maybe not entirely smart or entirely moral. But there's something pure and sweet about the young man, too, and a certain surprising shrewdness about him, too. He keeps managing to stay a lively, often imaginative, step ahead of his implacable pursuer until?...
...Yahoo! Sports columnist and former player Kenny Smith reached the point where he asked himself, “Is the league a bunch of rags-to-riches, spoiled, overpaid, lazy, selfish, pampered, rap-listening, womanizing, good-for-nothings?” The image of the NBA player has gotten so bad that teams like the Indiana Pacers have removed their players from commercials, instead emphasizing the coaches and management—who are associated with “hustle, teamwork and fundamentally sound basketball”—over the players, who are associated with...
...think that if they turn out to be not terribly intrusive they could be very very good for advertisers,” said John G. Palfrey ’94, the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, “People have gotten used to Google ads in various places online including their e-mail...[but] if it clutters the Facebook experience or crosses lines of propriety—which we don’t know what they are they are yet—it will backfire. It’s high-risk...
...movies made in Europe and some scrappy filmmaking, fits into that category. Coppola set up a production office at a friend's Bucharest pharmaceutical company, auditioning actors and cinematographers amid stores of cough syrup and vitamins. He hired a 28-year-old director of photography who had just gotten out of film school to shoot in less expensive high-definition digital video. With the help of old friend George Lucas, Coppola equipped a Dodge Sprinter cargo van with all the camera gear he would need, a technique he had employed on The Rain People, the 1969 movie they worked...
...It’s a gift. I could never have gotten into Harvard because I can’t think logically, I can’t reason. But I’m rich in imagination, inspiration, intuition. That’s the gift of dyslexia...