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...have very eclectic taste. You write about Godard in one sentence and Dr. Dre's The Chronic in the next. The first two pieces I ever wrote for the A.V. Club were reviews for the video section: Tromeo and Juliet, and Seconds by John Frankenheimer. Tromeo and Juliet was a good example of something that mashes up high culture and low culture in a deliberately provocative way, in that they implemented a fair amount of the actual Shakespeare and added a lot of sex with mutating cows. I think one of the reasons I started "My Year of Flops...
...sites, a studio insider told industry blogger Nikki Finke on Friday morning, "If it holds up, we'll do $50 million." The Friday figures supported that optimism: Brüno amassed a sensational $14.4 million. But the movie plummeted nearly 40% its second day, to $8.8 million. Meanwhile, the next five movies on the chart - Ice Age 3, Transformers 2, Public Enemies, The Proposal and The Hangover - all saw substantial increases from Friday to Saturday. (Ice Age actually did better business than Brüno on Saturday.) Worse yet, Brüno's rating by CinemaScore, which polls moviegoers just...
Ranking cities by the extent of price reductions gives Detroit the title of most discounted city. The average markdown in Motown is 21% off the original listing price. That figure doesn't include foreclosed properties - and would surely be higher if it did. The next largest average markdowns can be found in Las Vegas (16%), Miami (15%), New York (13%) and Phoenix...
...fore. Obama described a future anchored in institutions of governance and international agreement, where tribal identities would be subsumed by a common sense of humanity and international economics would turn old national competitions into alliances. He portrayed the peaceful transfer of power in competitive democracies as the next step in Africa's century-long emergence from the shackles of colonial rule. "This progress may lack the drama of the 20th century's liberation struggles," he said. "But make no mistake: it will ultimately be more significant. For just as it is important to emerge from the control of another nation...
...willing, in the next five years, the world will say, 'Indonesia is something, Indonesia is rising.' " - Speaking at a huge election rally in Jakarta (New York Times, July...