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...summed up in one question: why did he continue to labor on screenplays after it had become painfully evident that the mainstream movie industry (as well as the independent sphere, which he had helped to jumpstart with "Easy Rider") had no interest in his work? Throughout these lean years, Southern could have easily veered back into what he called the "quality lit game," given his well-respected status in the literary community. The most cogent explanation for Southern's peculiar decision to stick with the film world can be found in his 1962 essay "When Film Gets Good..." (included...
...gotten some really random stuff. Husbands will call their wives on their cell phones, and I’ve signed some guy’s chest. It’s ok, but when you’re in the grocery just trying to get your Lean Cuisines…I guess I took my anonymity for granted,” he says...
...clothes in a fancy Detroit men's store while his son imagined life beyond his meager surroundings. "I could stretch out my arms in my bedroom and touch both walls," recalls Bruckheimer. He escaped to the movies as often as he could and dreamed of making films like David Lean's 1962 Lawrence of Arabia, epic pictures with "bigger-than-life heroes, bigger-than-life villains." In 1967, The Graduate, with its Simon and Garfunkel songs, showed him how to wed pop movies with pop music. In 1970, after a brief career in advertising, Bruckheimer moved to Hollywood...
...broadcasts in six countries, and I ask her what she really wants. She says she doesn't want to live in a world separate from humans. To prove it, with all the free will she can muster, LiLi wants to kiss me. She offers her pink pixilated lips, I lean forward and - smack! - my first virtual kiss. But I don't feel a thing. And apparently neither does she: "I don't think that real humans can fulfill the needs of a virtual veejay." She's probably right; for one thing, like all of her fellow chatterbots, LiLi...
...neglect or not, Americans got used to plenty of quick-fix sympathy from Big Bad Bill, whether it was tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dispatching Bill Richardson to roam the desert to lean on OPEC or just a lot of lip-biting over prices at the pump...