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...long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, before Hollywood started making only superhero blockbusters and art-house Oscar winners, there were big, fun, beautiful movies that were both crowd-pleasing and artistically valuable. “Slumdog Millionaire” is one of these movies. With its exuberant love story, brilliant young cast, and the constant refrain of the “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” soundtrack, “Slumdog Millionaire” is the most fun you will have at the movies until neuroscientists genetically alter our brains so we?...
...it’s because our bodies are in peak physical condition. Or maybe it’s just because we rarely attend class. But why bother going, or changing the duration of the passing period for that matter? After all, lecture videos always start on time and if Hollywood has taught us anything, it is to not meddle with time travel—err, travel time. Nevertheless, for those who are routinely late, we have come up with several solutions, each better than any that we’ve heard proposed thus far. Instead of increasing travel time across...
...Synecdoche, New York.” The film is alive, changing and renewing itself, presumably with successive viewings, in a way that “Eternal Sunshine” or “Malkovich” only hinted at. To call Charlie Kaufman a unique voice in Hollywood would have been satisfactory four years ago. With “Synecdoche, New York,” however, Kaufman has staked his claim as one of America’s most important filmmakers.—Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...have a favorite bull? A favorite one of mine was a bull named Hollywood. He was really big and mean and you never knew what he was going to do. So when you got on him, you knew that you better have everything in line or it wasn't going to be good for you. Then there was another bull named Mossy Oak Mud Slinger. Everybody wanted to draw him, but if you made one little mistake, you would buck...
...brother, Ari, is a high-powered Hollywood agent and the basis for Jeremy Piven's character in the HBO series Entourage, Ari Gold. Emmanuel himself was the basis for the character played by Bradley Whitford in The West Wing: Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman...