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...cinematographer Haskell Wexler sang Woody Guthrie's "The Union Maid" - and Roger performed not just the chorus ("Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union, / I'm sticking to the union 'til the day I die") but every verse. Roger had picked it off a Pete Seeger record he heard when he was younger and repeated it decades later, word-perfect...
...Rudd in Knocked Up is Ben's humane, hunky alternative to his lower-life-form friends, and a closer soulmate than Alison. He can't have sex with Pete, but Alison can't make him laugh so hard - which is what matters in a guy-centric comedy. Ben is tolerant of Alison's weaknesses but attracted to Ben's strengths. He's not the Other, which guys like Ben think of women; he's the better, cooler Ben. At the film's climax, the two go off to Vegas, again not to have sex but to do some "shrooms...
...with the male-male romances that stock so many Hollywood movies (check my reviews of 300, Blades of Glory and Spider-Man 3 for extensive notes on this trend) but a more honest parable. Instead, in the middle of their stoned bliss, the guys decide to go back home: Pete to his loveless marriage, Ben to the foxy lady who somehow wants him to be the father of their child. Comic birth scene and declarations of love ensue...
...surprisingly, wealthy, opulent Dubai has some high-profile projects. Woods has signed up to build a golf course, a golf academy, a hotel and homes in Dubailand, the region's largest tourism and leisure facility, while Greg Norman is teaming with Sergio Garcia and influential designer Pete Dye to create Dubai's first links-style course. Jack Nicklaus, a pioneer among the player-designers, has announced a $1.35 billion golf-resort venture in the Cape Verde Islands, off the West African coast. Gary Player Design built the first public course in China on an island off Hong Kong and just...
Most movie directors have individual contracts with their studios; the Pixar directors are employees of the company, contributing on all studio projects. The so-called Brain Trust--Lasseter, Bird and Stanton, along with directors Lee Unkrich, Bob Peterson, Brenda Chapman, Pete Docter and Gary Rydstrom and one recent recruit, Little Miss Sunshine writer Michael Arndt--convenes regularly to spitball ideas and, Lasseter says, "help one another make these films. We're very honest...