Word: hansons
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...sense, the theme of director Curtis Hanson's movie, which he co-wrote with Eric Roth (Munich, The Good Shepherd) - a writer with a gift for patient, novelistic complexity - is the education of Huck Cheever. Even though that process proceeds via a certain amount of boy-girl, father-son clichés, the movie does not have a tired feeling about it. In part that's because Huck, who needs to get together enough money to pay his entrance fee for the World Championship of Poker and can only do so by "playing with the guppies" in small stakes games...
...life, but before we get there, a lot of poker gets played and that's the movie's other great strength. Poker, obviously and uniquely, is a game of skill and luck - its drama consisting of talent mobilizing its strengths to minimize the workings of mischance. Wisely, I think Hanson (also the director of LA Confidential and 8 Mile) focuses on the game, which is the thing to which all his characters, except Billie, have utterly surrendered themselves. It defines these people and his direction of the game sequences is clear, suspenseful and witty. Alfred Hitchcock used to say that...
...embodies—as McMahon describes in a phone interview with the Crimson—a “middle-American mainstream lifestyle.” “Premonition” tells the story of a family’s picture-perfect life, until the day Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) drops her daughters off at school and comes home to find her husband has been killed in a car crash. Even more shocking, she wakes up the next morning to discover him safe and sound. Eventually, she comes to realize that the days of her week...
...eighth of the season in addition to making two saves.“It’s great for the team to get a chance to get some people involved,” Sifers said. Martin made 14 stops in 47 minutes of work, while Dutchwomen goalie Amanda Hanson wound up with 51 saves as the Crimson held a 59-17 advantage in shots.—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...this enthusiasm, the usual biases seem to be absent. Old fogies like me are reaching for the classics and so are young guns; 300, the film about Thermopylae, is based on a graphic novel. Conservatives sup at the classic cup; Victor Davis Hanson, a scholar of ancient warfare, is Dick Cheney's favorite historian. (One of the lessons of the Peloponnesian War, Hanson writes, is that "resolute action" brings "lasting peace." Ah, yes.) And liberals seek succor from the ancient texts too; it is easy to read Harris' novel on political intrigue in Ciceronian Rome as a critique...