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...object of this attention smiles at all the inferences--not least because, at 59, Freston is old enough to be the granddad of his target ticket buyer. He was in Park City, Utah, he says, at the invitation of Robert Redford, whose Sundance Channel is owned by Viacom. When at a film festival, see a film. Hence his presence at Hustle & Flow. "I couldn't believe the articles--'God, he stood up when the movie was finished!' There were 1,000 people standing up in the room. I was one of the last guys to stand," Freston says...
...trunk. A pure aesthetic flourish on the part of Jean Bugatti, son of company founder Ettore, the riveted seam gives the car a hand-sewn look. It also removes it so completely from the realm of the familiar as to make the Atlantic Coupe something close to a Surrealist object...
...world’s only superhero—in fact, the world’s only political superhero. Its protagonist’s remarkable abilities are an interesting wrinkle rather than the center of the plot. A civil engineer by trade, he stumbles onto a Generic Glowing Object (itself an instance of deus ex machina present in nearly every superhero’s origin story) that explodes and inscribes curving scars on his face reminiscent of the metallic tracery on a circuit board...
...more important issues at hand at this university. The “crisis of leadership” one tenured faculty member decried is pure political capitalization. The continuous reiteration of the two-word phrase “innate differences” does not seem to be the only object of the faculty’s ire. It has, however, served to create an opportunity to drop a stack of complaints on the desk of the president. The solely negative remarks insinuating accusations of racism, sexism, and every other “ism” on the planet would potentially leave...
After this titillating meal, I tried in vain to organize another rendezvous with the object of both my story—and my affection. Unfortunately, intersession was fast approaching, and Matt was heading home to small-town New York to spend some quality sweet-and-sensitive time with his family...