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...Leo Handler just wants to make it up to his mother. After doing time for grand theft auto, he's come home, to Queens, to start again, to make things right, get a job and help his mother out. Leo is kind of a quiet and understated guy, not usually given to displays of affection or emotion. When he does smile, it feels wonderful and safe. Unfortunately, Leo, played by Mark Wahlberg, has few reasons to be happy in James Gray's newest feature, The Yards. A dark, noir-ish story set against the intrigues of New York City...
...really start to like Leo as you see more and more of his life. He wants to make his ailing mother proud, but it seems like so few things in his life have worked out and this is no exception. He falls into the illegal side of his uncle's subway car business by accident, helped along the way by his best friend Willie. But of course things go wrong (they always do) and Leo ends up the target of a police search for putting a police officer in a coma. By the end of the movie, he has been...
...also co-wrote the script, and he has stated that there is a very deliberate, tragic theme running through the story. Some critics have faulted the movie for being overly deterministic, a predestined tragedy that everyone sees coming. And it's true that you can't help but see Leo's fate better than he can. But isn't that part of the point? Throughout the movie, you constantly side with Leo. Poor Leo. Leo still has a thing for his beautiful cousin Erika, who is practically engaged to Willie. Poor Willie, we might also say (Gray says that "Joaquin...
...continuing his commitment to protecting the individual, Bush's plan also provides for paycheck protection for union members. In a testimony before congress, Professor Leo Troy of Rutgers University estimated that union leaders spend between $300 and $500 million in union dues annually to support candidates. This money is spent without permission of union members. Rather than allowing union bosses to control this enormous amount of individuals' money, Bush will ensure that union members' dues are protected from leaders who spend their money without consent. Gore, in contrast, does nothing to protect the enormous amount of unsupervised spending...
Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch has a private spot on Prescott Street behind the Barker Center--a spot for which many professors would kill...