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Cole's lawyer, Boston attorney Jonathan Shapiro, has filed a motion to dismiss the charges. That motion was supposed to have been heard this Wednesday. But Shapiro said in an interview last Thursday that the hearing was postponed because he is busy trying a federal case...
...documentary selection committee, the snub spurred charges of corruption and artistic myopia. "It's a crime," fumes Wendy Finerman, a producer of Forrest Gump, which received 13 nominations. "This was one of the best documentaries of all time. The filmmakers were robbed." So fierce was the response that the Motion Picture Academy-a club with more secrets than the Masons-declared that it would examine the nominating procedure. "We always ask, 'Could our rules be changed?'" says Academy president Arthur Hiller. "You don't find out unless you take a close, hard look...
...movie's press packet, Interfilm's CEO and president Bob Bejan asserts that, "Interactive motion pictures provide a group activity and a social interaction unequaled in any other entertainment forum." In my mind, yelling at strangers in a movie theater bears more similarity to groupthink than to positive social interaction, and the movie's interactivity is the interactivity of the money exchange. That's life in the modern world: the home shopping network defines our idea of interactivity. The endings for regular movies are chosen by focus groups; that process is simply brought into the open here...
...last week's council meeting, many members protested a motion that would have added a House office hour to their regular council office hour. Now we ask, why do the council members want to squander that precious hour on matchmaking...
Also, the target area and attacking motions differ between sabre and foil. In sabre, attacks are made with a slashing motion of the weapon and points are awarded for any hit above the waist. Points in foil are scored with thrusting hits on the opponents torso and back...