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...Modernity has come to Mississippi, particularly in the last decade, with an entrepreneurial vengeance. The state's per-capita-income-growth rate over the past decade has been 16 percent above the national average, and 70 Fortune 500 companies maintain manufacturing operations in the Magnolia State. Forbes magazine recently ranked the Gulf Coast and Jackson as two of the best places to do business in America. The state will provide the central hub of the NAFTA railway corridor, and its first-rate port facilities on three commercial waterways offers economical and efficient access to national and international markets. Mississippi...
...work has become a serious proposition. In his new movie, Sandler plays a plunger salesman who dreams of escaping his banal existence via frequent-flyer miles. As far as romantic comedies go, it's very strange, which is what you would expect from director Paul Thomas Anderson of Magnolia and Boogie Nights. What you don't expect is an art film starring Sandler, whose lowbrow comedies have earned nearly $400 million since 1998 and have made him an idol of teenage boys, a cult figure on college campuses and a punch line for dismissive film critics. Punch-Drunk Love...
...does Barry every now and then destroy a bathroom or a glass patio door? Dunno. Won't even speculate. Probably just one of those inexplicably surreal accidents that writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson likes. Remember the frog shower in Magnolia...
...course, Bowles could wear the pink suit and still not flank her on gender. Women greet the Harvard Law grad and former Secretary of both Labor and Transportation like a rock star. By hiding a steel magnolia under a sweet one, she puts powerful men at ease while racing past them, a trait many women could...
...exclusively in his native Los Angeles and treats the city as more than a location—it’s a character. More importantly, since he has written and directed all of his films, each has dealt with issues that are close to him. Both Boogie Nights and Magnolia dealt with issues of absentee mothers and abandonment, and though he rarely speaks of her, Anderson’s own estranged mother clearly influenced him. Similarly, cancer played a large role in Magnolia because at the time Anderson was dealing with the death of his father...