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...true measure of star acting is the acceptance speech. They all have the same content ("I'm astonished to receive this ... Thanks to all the wonderful people I worked with ...") and differ only in the grace and humor with which they're delivered. By this standard, Robert Downey, Jr., a winner for best comedic performance, somehow, in Sherlock Holmes, merits an Oscar for his speech, in which he didn't just warn, "if you start playing violins I will tear this place apart," but also "refused" to thank his wife, producer and director; smartly done, sir. Streep, who followed...
Hijackings in the U.S. grew rarer in the '90s, and the ranks dwindled again; by 2001, there were reportedly just 33 U.S. air marshals left. Following 9/11, Congress reportedly pushed that number to 4,000, but as the years passed, skepticism returned. One critic, Representative John Duncan Jr. of Tennessee, noted that since 2001, the agency has averaged slightly more than four arrests a year--at a cost per arrest of around $200 million. There were no air marshals aboard Flight 253 on Dec. 25, but that may not have mattered: civilians, after all, took down the would-be bomber...
...This is not a black holiday; it is a people's holiday," said Coretta Scott King after President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law on Nov. 2, 1983. But in the complicated history of Martin Luther King, Jr Day, it has only recently been a holiday for all the people, all the time...
...artillery is his copy of the Bible, took in $11.7 million that day, beating the Pandorans' $10.4 million. Avatar then stormed back to take the Saturday crown, $17.2 million to $11.8 million, and, according to studio estimates, will easily win the first three days of the Martin Luther King. Jr., holiday weekend, $41.3 million to $31.6 million. Final numbers for the full four-day frame will be available Tuesday...
Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher—one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs who put Cott on the witness stand—wrote in an e-mailed statement that Cott was a strong addition to his case...