Word: mike
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...worries me though that in your run-down of the year’s great rap albums, you overlook one of the best: A Grand Don’t Come For Free by the Streets. Mike Skinner dropped what was probably the only successful second album this year, and did it with incredible panache. A narrative chronicling a day in Skinner’s life after he loses the titular thousand pounds, the album follows emotional peaks and valleys, including the counterpoint of the jubilant “Could Well Be In” and the wrenching British...
...mention that Artest was a mathematics major at St. John’s before he left early as a sophomore for the NBA Draft? That he sponsors basketball tournaments in the Queensbridge neighborhood where he grew up four times a year? That he was coached by former Harvard assistant Mike Jarvis at St. John’s? And that his nickname is “Pakman?...
...Mike Nichol’s new film Closer is infused with this type of magical chemistry, and at times the potency of the alchemic mix threatens to make its world teeter off balance. With a screenplay by Patrick Marber, adapted from his play of the same name, the picture is a tone poem to both love and its darker side. Dan (Jude Law), an obituary writer and aspiring novelist, shares a moment of charged visual contact with a beautiful girl as he makes his way to work in London one day. Her name is Alice (Natalie Portman...
...intimate film about the lives of a small cast of characters, this simple masterpiece by director Mike Leigh manages to be at once philosophically expansive and physically claustrophobic. Personalities too large for their surroundings compound the effect of poverty on spaciousness—there is merely too little room to accommodate everyone, their needs for privacy and their individual desires. Imelda Staunton gives a tight performance as the title character, a mid-century London mother who tests light bulbs in a factory and keeps house for the wealthy to provide for her children and aged mother. Somehow, she still finds...
...into the final frame, freshman forward Mike Hamilton slipped a wrist shot past Harvard netminder Dov Grumet-Morris, pulling Maine within two. The Collapse had begun...