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...similar on the Indian subcontinent, where Slumdog's box office take hasn't even approached that of any robust local film. As pleased as they might be about the picture's international éclat, the folks in Mumbai also realize that the first "Bollywood" production to make a major impact at the Academy was written, produced and directed by Englishmen - subjects of the old Raj. In the 1980s, Gandhi, another film about Indians and made by colonialists, took Best Picture. This time the entire cast was Indian or of Indian heritage; none of them had made an English-language feature...
...measure of his lingering impact that Hollywood is still embarrassed by the very idea of Jerry Lewis, let alone his presence. To the graybeards at the Academy, Jer is not only the demolisher of Oscar's gravitas but the unkillable specter of his first eminence, in the late '40s and '50s, as the goony kid prancing around the cool crooner. (One producer cruelly called Martin and Lewis "the organ grinder and the monkey"). He is the comic whose genius, or even the robust grosses of his movies, nobody in Hollywood took seriously. And because he was championed as an auteur...
...percent increase will bring the total tuition package (which includes room and board) to $48,868. This increase will be paired, however, with a corresponding increase in financial aid disbursement, which should mitigate the overall impact of the tuition hike. In other words, Harvard will still be able to meet the financial needs of every admitted student, regardless of the price of tuition...
...long haul is ahead for citizens and businesses already reeling from the foreclosure catastrophe and high unemployment rates. "This is the most serious budget crisis in my lifetime - and I have gray hair," says Jean Ross, executive director of the nonpartisan California Budget Project. "It will have a significant impact on Californians for the next 18 months and for years to come...
...cliff," says Allan Zaremberg, president and chief executive officer of the California Chamber of Commerce. "No tax in a recession is a good tax. But I think the legislature and the governor went out of way to spread taxes by as many Californians and businesses as possible so the impact would not hurt any one industry or any one individual...