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...Hollywood version of Brown's blockbuster has a solid pedigree: director Ron Howard, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and star Tom Hanks, all Oscar winners. Any movie with that celebrated a roster usually demands early exposure to the upper-middle media: Vanity Fair, perhaps, or one of the major newsmagazines. But not even the undercover nerds at Ain't It Cool News got a peek. (AICN's big scoop, a year or so ago, was that the role of Silas, the murderous albino, might go to ... Jim Carrey! Paul Bettany...
...most photographed - inspiring fashion designers and a frenzy of suitors (she received around 1,500 marriage proposals). Baker was active in the French resistance in World War II - often smuggling coded messages on sheet music - and remained a lifelong fighter against racism. She even prefigured the multiracial family of Hollywood star Angelina Jolie by adopting 12 children from varying ethnic backgrounds, affectionately dubbing them her "Rainbow Tribe." As part of the Cent Ans de la Dame tour, Baker's eldest son, Akio Bouillon, is scheduled to greet guests at the Château des Milandes - Baker's Dordogne mansion...
...Whiting should have told a story dating back to 1940, when Arlen and Mercer came to her home (Margaret's father was another Mercer collaborator, Richard Whiting; they wrote "Hooray for Hollywood") eager to play a song they had just composed for a Warner Bros. melodrama. From the first bars of "Blues in the Night" ("My momma done tol' me?") everybody knew the song was gold. Inexplicably, it was left off the song list...
...other faculty members are Lisa Berkman of the School of Public Health, Richard Fallon of the Law School, Amy Hollywood of the Divinity School, Alex Krieger of the Design School, William A. Sahlman of the Business School, Judith D. Singer of the Graduate School of Education, Robert Stavins of the Kennedy School of Government, and Christopher T. Walsh of Harvard Medical School...
...hair snagging on bushes during an attack. Music is limited to revolutionary songs. The photos that plastered Samandi's bedroom walls were of dead suicide bombers, not pop stars. And movies in Tiger territory were a strict diet of action flicks, both homemade efforts using real war footage and Hollywood shoot-?em-ups. For unmarried Samandi, sex or even holding hands, like cigarettes and alcohol, was banned. The Tiger leadership also reserved the right to prevent any marriage it deemed unsuitable - that is, outside L.T.T.E ranks - and sometimes arranged unions between guerrillas...