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...movie industry works. In the decade that the U.S. military spent in Vietnam, only a few films surfaced, including John Wayne's bombastic The Green Berets and De Palma's anarchic comedies Greetings and Hi Mom! It took years for The Deer Hunter, Coming Home and Platoon to appear and leave their indelible marks. The great Iraq movie--like a solution to the current Iraq quandary--is still a thing to hope...
...coverage a lot longer in any given situation in case the quarterback is able to break the pocket,” Andrew Berry said.Princeton has been unable to fully capitalize on its depth at receiver, however, in part because of the inconsistencies that have plagued both Foran and platoon-mate Greg Mroz in the passing game. The two quarterbacks have combined to throw 11 interceptions, worst among Ivy League teams and a major contribution to the Tigers league-worst minus-eight turnover margin.Offensively, the Crimson will look to capitalize on Princeton’s inexperienced secondary, which has a pair...
Just a dusty mile or so from where a fellow platoon leader was recently killed by a powerful roadside bomb, Army 1st. Lt. James Vansandt piles out of a Humvee and sets out with his Iraqi translator into the darkness toward the crowded main street of Musayyib, a ramshackle Shi'ite town set along the Euphrates River some 40 miles south of Baghdad. Robed men are gathered in clusters on benches and around tables brought out after the daily ritual of breaking the 12-hour Ramadan fast. As his platoon fans out into the shadows on both sides...
...surefire idea: a reteaming of Ben Stiller, Hollywood's biggest international comedy star, with Peter and Bobby Farrelly, writer-directors of cheerfully gross comedies. You probably loved There's Something About Mary, where Stiller fell in love with giggly blond Cameron Diaz and won her by fighting off a platoon of suitors and surviving a slew of acute embarrassments (the zipper, the hair gel, the dog). Now here's The Heartbreak Kid, in which Stiller falls for and weds a Diaz-type blond (Malin Akerman) only to discover, on his honeymoon, he's married the Woman from Hell - and that...
...consider this next movie like the other Vietnam ones, because they were all personal, those stories. There's me in Platoon. There's [Vietnam veteran] Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July. And in Heaven & Earth, there's Le Ly Hayslip [the Vietnamese woman whose life is dramatized in the film, and who accompanied Stone on his trip to Danang]. All three were personal stories...