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...instead focuses his attention on whatever cinematic project is at hand. When it comes to directing or acting in a film, Washington notes, “I’ve been in this game for a long time. Make the movie—that’s the joy. What people will say, what they’ll give you for it, that’s all really gravy.”It’s all gravy, that is, until any negative reviews and responses to his work come rolling in. But Washington has learned to push detractors aside...
Merriam-Webster decreed “w00t” the number-one word of 2007. A hybrid of letters, numerals, shorthand, and hooting noises, “w00t” is defined as “an interjection expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word ‘yay.’” Instead of analyzing precisely why “w00t” reads better with zeros instead of “o”s, I offer some alternatives, taken from...
...coherence. Dominic’s few interactions with his estranged love Laura (Alexandra Maria Lara) further splinter the film’s cohesion. Ignored for most of the film, their relationship is left very much unexplained, which hinders the audience from connecting with his character or sharing in his joy decades later, when he finds her again. Lara churns out a good performance in her more intense scenes, such as when she is possessed by a frantic Sumerian-speaker. Otherwise, when called upon for subtle acting in normal conversations, her performance becomes lifeless. Such difficulties may be linked...
...bets on biofuels, while his former partners at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (Kleiner Perkins) have belatedly followed in a big way, investing more than $270 million in the green-tech sector and hiring Nobel prizewinner Al Gore as an active partner. As Kleiner Perkins' Bill Joy told a recent gathering of clean-tech CEOs in Boston, "We really do believe that energy and green technology is the largest economic opportunity we've seen so far this century...
...mail, I took a few deep breaths and picked FOP, a week of camping for all of the nature-loving undergrads I was soon to join. I lied shamelessly on the forms, ellipsing my experience living on the land in New Mexico without running water, toilets, or joy, and signed up for a beginner trip. My father was surprised at my orientation activity choice (“But Lizzie, you hate camping. And nature.” “You don’t even know me!”). But I was convinced that a week of camping...