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...qualities associated with great driving--steely concentration, hand-eye coordination, a killer instinct--fairly stink of machismo. Think of a film about women and cars, and you get Thelma & Louise, in which the leads' big act of defiance is to drive off a cliff to their deaths. Actresses do show up in the car-chase genre, but they are essentially decals, irrelevant to the movies' obsessions. (The only genuinely sexual moment in 2F2F is when two new cars are unveiled for Walker and Tyrese. Their eyes bug out as if Britney and Halle had just stripped for them.) Car-movie...
Modest people don’t usually have a killer instinct. Such is not the case for the Harvard women’s hockey team’s humble freshman, Julie Chu, who also happens to be one of the Crimson’s deadliest offensive weapons, a potent goal-scorer with blazing speed and an incredible knack for finishing...
...just following my instinct as I go along. I’ve already been working for 10 years. In 10 more years I might be ready for something new,” she says. Charlie blinks...
...appreciate what has happened, you will have to abandon cherished notions and open your mind. You will have to enter a world in which your genes are not puppet masters pulling the strings of your behavior but puppets at the mercy of your behavior, in which instinct is not the opposite of learning, environmental influences are often less reversible than genetic ones, and nature is designed for nurture...
...make the world's best B movies without condescending to the audience. "On CSI I told them to use the correct terminology even if the audience doesn't know it," says Bruckheimer, "because even if they don't understand it, they'll know it's real." These days, his instinct for what excites audiences is eerily perfect. People may mock Kangaroo Jack, but it opened as the No. 1 film in the U.S. "It was fascinating to watch him watch a tape and know in 15 seconds if an actor has the charisma and naturalism for a part," says Hank...