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...LaBute's Fat Pig), the attention from the Entourage gig has landed Piven, who turns 41 next month, his first lead role in a studio film. "I was always No. 5 on the call sheet, No. 1 in your heart," he says. But with the upcoming Smokin' Aces, a mob movie in which he plays what he calls another "flawed Jew," Piven got top billing over co-stars Ben Affleck and Andy Garcia. His days of coming in on short notice to bring some instant comedic pop to films such as Singles or Rush Hour 2 may be over...
...nationals and face obstacles to fully integrating into Japanese society. Most disturbing about Japanese wariness towards foreigners is a longstanding association of foreigners with crime and rowdiness. This stereotype was most tragically evinced following the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake, when rumors about Korean residents committing acts of sabotage led to mob violence and numerous fatalities. As recently as 2000, right-wing Tokyo Governor Ishihara Shintaro warned of foreigners creating civil disorder in the aftermath of an earthquake. Though the vast majority of the public rejected the comments, they struck a chord with some. Given this history, the new Japanese fingerprinting...
...dirt kilometers west of Alice Springs. Around the same time as the Yirrkala people were presenting their bark petition to parliament, hundreds of desert nomads were gathering at the settlement as part of the government's assimilation policy. Far from their Pintupi, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Luritja homelands, the Papunya mob were caught in "the agony of exile," Perkins has written. Driving his VW into town in 1971, Sydney art teacher Geoffrey Bardon wasn't thinking of starting a revolution. But by encouraging the town's senior men to paint their ceremonial sand designs onto the local school wall, an artistic...
...countless lynchings - including those of Emmitt Till, and, less famously, James Cameron, a black man who was accused of murder and rape in Marion, Ind., in 1930 and survived his attempted lynching, though his two co-defendants did not. Anticipating his imminent death at the hands of the angry mob, Cameron (who was later exonerated from both crimes) recalled, "The realization dawned on me that I had crossed the boundary into the most sacred area of all, the world where white women lived." On the other hand, Dill says, "there is the stereotype of black female sexual availability, which meant...
...Police spokesman Mick Spinks. "The whole crowd just started picking up rocks and stoning the police and the police cars." Tear gas was used as a last resort to allow Rini to escape to safety, Spinks says. When the officers retreated into the building, half the 1,000-strong mob stayed around Parliament and the other half headed for Chinatown, starting an arson and looting spree that continued for two days...