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...Michael Jordan is God, then Phil Knight put him in heaven. By paying Jordan and other athletes millions to endorse his shoes, the chairman and CEO of Nike has helped turn them into household names ... [Knight] is the master of the mantra of the age ('Just Do It') and the proprietor of Nike's unmistakable swoosh, the icon that has turned the lowly sneaker into winged sandals ... Knight's stars are frontiersmen, exponents of an in-your-face brand of American optimism. And thus sports, as Knight has asserted, are 'the culture of the U.S.' By exporting the culture...
...analyzing Matthew's message than in celebrating it, less concerned about parsing Luke's sentiments than in singing them. The beauty of Christmas carols is that they can retrieve the drama that the eye may quickly skip over on the page. Luke's description of "a multitude of the heavenly host praising God" is certainly vivid. But does it truly express--the way, perhaps, the single word glory, extended in five-part harmony over four delirious musical measures in Angels We Have Heard on High can--the awesome irruption of heaven's fearful and beautiful phalanxes into our modest reality...
...probably make s___y choices in the future, I'm sure," he continues. "You need a Heaven's Gate in there once in a while," he says, referring to the legendary film flop. "But what thrills me right now is disappearing into a role that matters, in movies that matter." Of course, DiCaprio is too rich, too pretty and too famous to ever disappear completely, but if he will never quite be a character actor, at least he is on his way to being an actor with character...
...John Logan (Gladiator, Any Given Sunday) through 15 script revisions over two years, mostly in an effort to make Hughes' obsessive-compulsive disorder meaningful but not maudlin. "I loved those meetings," says DiCaprio. "Just talking about ideas with people, giving the movie time to breathe--that's like complete heaven for me." He spent plenty of time preparing to play Hughes. "I don't know what he's talking about with this 10 seconds of focus stuff," says Scorsese, and laughs. "Don't let him kid you--he's incredibly thorough." DiCaprio read thousands of pages of Hughes biographies, watched...
Using the forest “is like dropping into science heaven,” Tuross said...