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...Rich” is a Shady/Aftermath production and Marcus (50 Cent) rolls with the same fat dude (Omar Miller) that B. Rabbit runs with in “8 Mile,” comparisons to Eminem’s silver screen debut are still inevitable. The pitch is simple: Take one of the world’s most famous rappers and make a movie about his Horatio Algiers-like ascent from the gutter to the limelight. Easy, right? But unfortunately, “Get Rich” strays from the “8 Mile” formula and finds...
...major publication without a gentle nudge from the right people. Features on USC’s Reggie Bush and Texas’ Vince Young don’t displace themselves.In Hartigan’s case, the Brown sports information office and its Ivy League counterpart worked in tandem to pitch his story and overcome one major obstacle: not many people follow Ivy League sports.“That makes it a little bit more difficult obviously,” Humm said. “But once people find out about him—I know with USA Today...
...March 31. Savvy high schoolers have been trained to look for the “thick envelope”: the large package presumably filled with the posters, housing forms, and other materials sent out to accepted students. It’s the first time a university makes its pitch to admitted students, and many schools look to woo with glossy fliers and full-color pamphlets...
...hours were brutal, and the compressed deadlines forced strapped senior managers to execute every type of task. At 3 one morning, just 41/2 hours before a pitch meeting with a key sponsor, Tim Hinchey, the team's corporate-development chief, munched on Denny's cheeseburgers with two NBA execs while waiting for a presentation to print at an Oklahoma City Kinko's. "Here we are, three fairly experienced guys in the league, wearing our sweatshirts, jeans and baseball hats," says Hinchey. "How did we get here? This was kind of crazy." Shorthanded, the Hornets asked members of their dance squad...
...acclaimed production of Hamlet, and Baz Luhrmann's staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream), Mclean here applies the finesse of fine art to the pulpiest of fiction. Wolf Creek is impeccably structured (apart from one or two creaky plot points later in the piece), and the director extracts pitch-perfect performances from his young leads, with a marvelously malicious turn from Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor is Grand Guignol with an Akubra hat. As for the charge of exploitation - well, directors have been turning true crime into artful entertainment ever since Alfred Hitchcock dredged up the story of Ed Gein...