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There would seem to be no downside to a film directed by Mr. All-Time Box Office Champ and starring Tom Hanks, who has often turned iffy projects (like Forrest Gump) into smash hits. The 10 films Hanks starred in before this year each grossed more than $100 million at the North American wickets. He faltered only with this spring's The Ladykillers, and that one doesn't count. (Making a film with indie icons like the Coen brothers--or with Charlie Kaufman, as Jim Carrey did for the similarly low-grossing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind--is considered...
...years and limit the impact, even if it ultimately loses. Some antitrust experts say a settlement that imposed some restrictions might have been a better course of action. "A deal was possible but the Commission wanted a bit too much," says Jacques Bourgeois, an attorney at Akin Gump in Brussels. Yet Monti has set a powerful precedent. "It's all about ensuring that a cycle of behavior is not allowed to repeat itself," says David Wood, a Brussels-based attorney for Howrey Simon Arnold & White, who previously worked in Monti's competition directorate. Microsoft's rivals, at least...
...racial shackles. Silk’s reinvention of his own identity is such that blame for a racial slur cannot prod him into telling the truth about his perfectly constructed life. These long years of ironic sacrifice are what Zuckerman chronicles in an attempt to weave together a Forrest Gump-like pastiche of recent American history...
...Forrest Gump’s run across the country in Forrest Gump influence your protest style...
...reform. Also, in the last miles, several thousand people were walking with me into Washington, including several dozen members of Congress, and we had lots of “Good Morning America” and NPR stories to raise the profile of the reform bill as it hit Congress. Gump had none of that. None...