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When I was eight years old, I wanted to be a hotshot quarterback in the NFL. At twelve, I had my sights set on quantum physics and all things subatomic. Three years later, I thought hosting a late night show would be the ultimate dream...
That should change next season with the arrival of hotshot recruit Dylan Reese, who could give this year’s regulars stiff competition for that last lineup spot...
...Princeton, one season after the Crimson’s overtime thriller, Carmody was gone, bolting Princeton for a head coaching position at Northwestern. When he left, Princeton’s hotshot freshman Spencer Gloger followed suit, transferring to UCLA...
Granted, it is unlikely that budding Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said to himself fresh out of college, “I want to be famous, but I think Hollywood is too phony, so I’ll become a professor.” But a hotshot professor may be tempted to coast on the wake of early accomplishments into a prosperous but unproductive middle age. Harvard should not be in the business of providing office space to professors who have outlived their time in the academic sun, even if they are faddish talking-heads or best-selling...
Affectlessness is not a quality much prized in movie protagonists, but Billy Bob Thornton, that splendid actor, does it perfectly as Ed Crane, a taciturn small-town barber, circa 1949. Everyone cheats on him--his wife, his business partner, his teen lover, his hotshot lawyer. By the movie's end, he is facing his final comeuppance, deadpan sangfroid still miraculously intact. The ever astonishing Coen brothers say their film was inspired by the spirit of James M. Cain's novels about ill-fated dopes. But the Coens transcend Cain. If this were not such great American-vernacular moviemaking--hilarious...