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...TIME: Both Amsterdam and Frank are living out their father's dreams. Each is doing what his father taught him to do, and each on a grander scale...
Whatever the case, Abrams and Gust agree that the government and medical-marijuana researchers are now working together. Abrams has two approved studies under way, and the State of California has founded a new, grander version of its old therapeutic research program. The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, which opened at the University of California two years ago with a yearly budget of $3 million, currently supports 11 studies that have received federal approval...
...Brando (whose corruptive brother he would play in On the Waterfront) and helped to free stage and film performance from the kingdom of nice. But Steiger was no mumbler; he spat his lines with acid precision. He often played tyrants--Napoleon, Al Capone, Mussolini (twice)--but his presence was grander: he suggested the Old Testament God, annoyed at the world's slow wit. Even as The Pawnbroker's death-camp survivor, he went for earned rage, not martyrdom. Steiger won a Best Actor Oscar for In the Heat of the Night, which showed a warming trend. But his legacy...
...China's growing entrepreneurial class. His company, headquartered in the industrial city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, is China's only major government- licensed erotica manufacturer. The plant daily pumps out some 10,000 sex toys destined for bedroom drawers worldwide, but Wu and his Japanese venture partner have grander plans: a $12 million investment in a new factory that could triple Loves' production and push sales past $100 million...
...best film, Steven Spielberg’s critically debated and audience-panned A.I., was unsurprisingly ignored by the Academy (except for in the visual effects and score categories). The public’s (and the Academy’s) reaction to A.I. is indicative of a grander thought on the state of American cinema. A.I. was the only film last year that was in any way daring (except for perhaps the jarring L.I.E.), but not in the way traditionally, and quite annoyingly, associated with new stylings of cinema. It didn’t have violent deaths or envelope-pushing...