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Scarface Nation: The Ultimate Gangster Movie and How It Changed America Ken Tucker St. Martin's Griffin; 288 pages...
...major director's reaction: 'Marty Scorsese turned to me - he was sitting in front of me at the premiere - and he turned around and said, Steven, this is a magnificent film, but be prepared, because Hollywood is going to hate this film, because it's about them.' [Producer Martin Bregman] concurred about the dim view his colleagues took of the film: 'Scorsese was right. Hollywood did hate it, hated it. We were looked at as though we were dragging filth into their living rooms...
...main channels - Top Gear regularly pulls in more than 7 million viewers, roughly a quarter of all Britons watching TV during the program's Sunday-night slot. Chalk that up to the show's high speed and high production values: crazy challenges and outlandish races - an Aston Martin versus a train between England and Monte Carlo, for instance (the Aston won) - are, like the rest of the show, beautifully shot and edited. Add in the bickering, bantering, male-but-not-macho presenters, and Top Gear has "touched something in the zeitgeist," says Steve Hewlett, a former British TV exec turned...
...papers here that I cannot get anywhere else,” resident Robert Brimmer said after buying a New York Times at the kiosk yesterday. “This is terrible.” “Oh no, please not another one,” Phillip W.D. Martin said upon learning that the kiosk is likely to close. Martin, a journalist and former Nieman Fellow who has lived in Cambridge since 1979, said he buys papers from Out of Town News twice a week. But some students like Kelly J. Warren ’11, who said she reads...
...department was formed in response to student activism that had been spurred by the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Since then, the department has been home to a number of leading intellectuals, such as Henry Louis Gate, Jr. and Cornel R. West. But over the past ten years the Af-Am faculty shrunk to bare bones after University President Laurence H. Summer’s contentious tenure spurred the departure of five prominent scholars...