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...what a handful of Writers Guild of America strikers were doing the day before Thanksgiving in a Spanish home belonging to actor-writer-director Kamala Lopez in Los Angeles' Hancock Park neighborhood. At Lopez' dining room table, Factory Girl director George Hickenlooper, TV writer Jill Kushner and actor-writer Joel Marshall were editing dozens of short black and white public service announcements featuring actors like Holly Hunter, Sean Penn, Laura Linney, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jenna Elfman, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Benjamin, Ed Asner, David Schwimmer and the cast of Ugly Betty. Each of the 15-second...
...Rise of an Underdog Joel Stein's repeated references to Republican Ron Paul's campaign as "nerdy," especially the idea of a "free-market commodity-based money," indicates how ignorant most Americans are about the monetary system [Nov. 12]. Money affects virtually every interaction we have with other people. When this interaction is in effect controlled by a private cartel (the Federal Reserve) instead of free-market forces, there is room for manipulation. I wish media institutions like Time would stop dismissing scrutiny of something as important as the monetary system. You do a disservice not only to yourselves...
...Joel Stein's repeated references to Ron Paul's campaign as "nerdy," especially the idea of a "free-market commodity-based money," indicates how ignorant most Americans are about the monetary system [Nov. 12]. Money affects virtually every interaction we have with other people. When this interaction is in effect controlled by a private cartel (the Federal Reserve) instead of free-market forces, there is room for manipulation. I wish media institutions like TIME would stop dismissing scrutiny of something as important as the monetary system. You do a disservice not only to yourselves but to future generations as well...
...doing the movie, who’s going to play Moss?’” Brolin says.Shortly after “Grindhouse” filming ended, Brolin learned that he would, in fact, play Moss in a film adaptation from Academy Award winning duo Joel and Ethan Coen.In the story, Llewellyn Moss, a mild-mannered Texan welder, discovers a large cache of drugs and money at the horrific desert site of a drug deal gone bad. He chooses to take the money and must evade the pursuit of a terrifying man guided only by a twisted moral code...
...work was 2000’s disappointing, Billy Bob Thorton-directed effort “All the Pretty Horses”. Consequently, one might expect that Hollywood would once again mishandle the work of one of the literary geniuses of the last century. In the hands of Joel and Ethan Coen, however, these suspicions could not land further from the truth. “No Country for Old Men,” an adaptation of McCarthy’s 2005 novel, will disappoint few. After a stunning string of flops, including 2003’s “Intolerable Cruelty?...