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...Unlike much of the plot of “Live Free or Die,” Kavet and Robin have a history of comedy that actually makes people laugh. They won an Emmy for their work with “Seinfeld,” and in 2005 they penned a how-to book on escaping awkward social interactions called “Saving Face.” But in “Live Free or Die” there is nothing funny about the not-so-ironic depression that follows the audience home after witnessing a full-length film about...
...Fuqua, who directed Training Day and King Arthur, knows his male audience, and knows that they like how-to movies on survival against all odds. So he spends plenty of screen time showing Swagger at work: cauterizing his own bullet wound, driving backward off a bridge into a river, planting napalm (a nice Vietnam touch) in an enemy compound. Indeed, the film is best at giving instructions in the assembling and detonation of weapons of movie distraction. And Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the genre. We happen...
...Hirsie admits to a fondness for Shakespeare, but says he spends most of his time reading how-to business books these days. "I don't get the chance to read fiction," he says. "A man who reads a novel is a man at rest. A man in Mogadishu works 13 or 14 hours a day. We don't have time for that...
...explore the site’s possibilities, especially as entrepreneurship recently has seen an upward trend. “After the success stories of Google and Facebook, entrepreneurship right now is really hot,” he said. After input from users, Alumwire is developing a “how-to guide on how to start your own business.” The brothers are now looking at new markets and shopping potential investors, looking at which ones will provide the best growth opportunities. Though the Businessweek coverage has brought an increase in traffic to the site, Allan said...
...about half right. When you hear a tune in your head, it's tough to put yourself in the position of a person who doesn't. To a large extent, the framework the Heaths lay out is a step-by-step guide for getting around that Curse, a how-to for anyone with good ideas who wants to captivate an audience, whether they want to lose weight...