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...plays on his computer as she's passing and you can already see the yearning. And then Hall & Oates' "You Make My Dreams," where you go from the pining to planning your future and your wedding. And then the Temper Traps' "Sweet Disposition," showing the growing connection. [Director Marc Webb] already wanted to use Wolfmother's song "Vagabond" near the end, as Tom starts to get out of his funk and get his life back on track...
...Most films have three or four emotional moments where you need a great song, but this film probably has six or seven moments where you absolutely needed music. From the beginning, Marc filled up some iPods and gave them to the actors and said, "Here you go - this is the direction we're going...
...pardons were a rigged game, tilted in favor of offenders with political connections. "He thought the whole pardon system was completely corrupt," says a top Bush adviser. Bush had a textbook illustration in one of his predecessor's last acts: Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, whose ex-wife had contributed heavily to his campaigns and presidential library, created a firestorm that consumed Clinton as he left the stage - and overshadowed the first days of the Bush Administration. As President, Bush was often annoyed when guests at holiday parties buttonholed him in photo lines...
...Director Marc Webb (a vide-auteur making his first feature) gives every scene a bang for comic or emotional effect; as he cuts away you can hear the rim shot. The songs that spray-paint the sound track, as well as the myriad movie references, are mostly antique (1960s to '80s); Webb wants old people to like this young-lovers film. Wants everyone...
Skeptics have long sniffed at the official Franco-Algerian version of how the monks were abducted and murdered. But Buchwalter's statement - given to investigating magistrate Marc Trévidic, who also happens to be overseeing the Pakistan case - blows the biggest hole yet in the idea that the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) killed the seven men. According to Buchwalter, an army intelligence official serving as military attaché to France's embassy in Algiers at the time of the killings, he was told by Algerian colleagues that the monks had died when an Algerian army helicopter patrolling an area...