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...worth of her fleece--yes, she has the same last name as her fabric--crib sheets. The figure was $30,000 last year. She projects sales of $400,000 this year and has just hired a national sales team. Dads are also getting in on the act. Mike Gatten projects up to $3 million in sales this year for his Miracle Blanket, designed in desperation to calm a colicky infant. Rosie Herman, of Tomball, Texas, worked 15 years as a manicurist before giving birth to twin girls and then noticing that the tasks of motherhood were drying out her hands...
...serious, however, as Rizwan follows Mohammad Chip’s lead, leaving for Palestine to become a member of a resistance group, a move that doesn’t fit with what we know about the until now laid-back character. Meanwhile, Sahar encounters another guy (Aaron, played by Mike Dwan), and the romantic comedy continues. The powerful scenes in which she confronts the existence of fundamentalism— wrestling with whether wearing a headscarf is demeaning and the reasons for her anger at organized religion—co-exist uneasily with genuinely funny scenes in which she flirts playfully...
Press passes dangling, we set foot on the field and talked to Trey and Mike. Cool enough...
...personal interview with The Crimson and a public question and answer session following a screening of his new film at the Harvard Film Archive, Solondz talked about the titular device behind his new film, what he is trying to get across, how TV shaped his sensability, and why director Mike Leigh wants everybody to be his martyrs...
Even more frustrating to Solondz is when filmmakers he respects lose their integrity in pursuit of a wider audience. While discussing his favorite filmmakers, Solondz raised writer/director Mike Leigh’s recent movie, “Vera Drake,” in which Imelda Staunton gave an Oscar-nominated performance as the titular abortionist, as an example of when great filmmakers go bad. Solondz takes pains to praise Leigh’s talents as a “masterful filmmaker, the actors were beautiful, it was beautifully shot and it’s a wonderful indictment of a patriarchal...