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...tentative Bush administration budget would reduce funding to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics by $20 million, according to Timken University Professor Irwin I. Shapiro, director of the center...
...film begins with acclaimed General Irwin (Robert Redford) being transported to a military prison for violent criminals. The warden, Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), rules the prison with an iron fist, but shows compassion and respect for General Irwin, one of his personal heroes. Some of these opening scenes involve Irwin arriving at the prison in a bus. For those of you acquainted with The Shawshank Redemption these scenes will seem very familiar. Remember the prisoners who placed bets on Andy? Well, those same gamblers are present here, eagerly making bets on when the general will commit suicide. From this point...
Most of the film deals with the transformation of the two main characters. Slowly, Colonel Winter changes from a seemingly nice warden who is a little strict into a cruel, vindictive monster. On the other side of the prison bars, General Irwin gradually changes from a passive observer of prison violence into the inmates’ one last chance at salvation. Throw in the compulsory estranged daughter and the usual assortment of martyrs and you have a script that is about as derivative as they come. In fact, its only saving grace is that it actually contains some unexpectedly humorous...
...despite its good qualities, The Last Castle doesn’t work simply because the audience is always two or three steps ahead of the characters. General Irwin may not know that he will save the prison, but the audience does. Everyone in the prison may question Yate’s true motives, but the audience knows well beforehand how things will turn out. In fact, in response to most of the film, audiences will no doubt be yelling Gandolfini’s oft-repeated phrase, “Yes, I know,” pleading with the film...
...Irwin admits that FLW's fortunes might be different if he hadn't landed the whale: he persuaded Lee Scott, now CEO of the cautious but deep-pocketed Wal-Mart, to make the retailer FLW's marquee sponsor. "I said, 'Lee, we've got a program that is absolutely your customer,'" recalls Jacobs. "He said, 'Look, we don't do those kinds of things.'" They...