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...corruptive properties of cinema, he could have found no more devoted Watch-man than Snyder, who willed the project into screen reality after Terry Gilliam and others failed. The ultimate fetishist auteur, Snyder takes hallowed pulp artifacts--the '70s horror movie Dawn of the Dead, the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 and now this--and films them with the near fanatic fidelity of someone constructing an Eiffel Tower replica out of matchsticks. To Watchmen, he brings a reverence for the text that equals Mel Gibson's in The Passion of the Christ and comes close to Gus Van Sant...
...Moore has declined screen credit on the Watchmen movie. But whatever his thoughts on the corruptive properties of cinema, he could have found no more devoted Watch-man than Snyder. The ultimate fetishist-auteur, he takes hallowed pulp artifacts - the '70s horror movie Dawn of the Dead, the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 and now this - and films them with the near-fanatic fidelity of someone constructing an Eiffel Tower replica out of matchsticks...
...while revenues have slipped - particularly at retail shops and restaurants - fewer people are fleeing skiing than you'd think. Michael Berry, president of the National Ski Areas Association, an industry trade group, projects that total lift-ticket purchases will decline 5% to 6% this season. (See pictures of Bode Miller, the renegade Alpine skier...
...them tied at 8-8 and 12-12, we couldn’t put the last one in. We just did not put the whole game together.” Only ten minutes into the first half, the Crimson was already down, 4-0. “Coach [Miller] called a timeout when we were down 4-0,” Halpern said. “We knew we could do it; we were better than them, but playing down to their level.” UMass managed to put one more on the board before Harvard kicked into gear...
...what of Mohamed, the first detainee released under the Obama Administration? He's expected to apply to remain in the U.K., but there's some confusion about whether or not British authorities will monitor his movements. Matt Miller, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, told TIME in an e-mail, "We worked with the British government to address both countries' concern about the threat he posed, and while we won't comment on the security measures the British government will take, we wouldn't have been in a position to transfer him unless both countries' security concerns were adequately...