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...Take a page from Hitchcock and hit the tube: I'm thinking a half-hour weekly sci-fi and adventure anthology series called "George Lucas Presents." Let the snobs think you're making pulp TV. Just like Rod Serling did on The Twilight Zone, you'll get away with all kinds of subversion...
...first feature here in 1989. That's when sex, lies, and videotape proved itself a come-from-nowhere winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or in 1989, then a sizable commercial success, Quentin Tarantino showed Reservoir Dogs at Cannes in 1992, but that was the merest fanfare to his Pulp Fiction, a Palme d'Or triumph in 1994 and probably the defining movie - certainly the most vivid, film-wise comic epic - of its decade...
...else you'll read this year, but Frey is such a relentlessly entertaining storyteller that you just won't care. Sure, the setups are formulaic (ironically, Frey makes fun of Hollywood's cookie-cutter plots, while his aren't much better), but the details are pure over-the-top pulp, and they go by so fast you don't have time to roll your eyes. Frey has a history of having a little too much fun with facts, among other controlled substances. As a writer of fiction, he may finally have found a job where that's not a problem...
...value of the cards being played gives the “count” of the decks, and the higher the count, the better the chance of winning in a game of blackjack. Using this basic strategy, and disguising himself with pseudonyms such as Vincent Vega (a character from Pulp Fiction), Irvine helped his team earn up to $500,000 in a single weekend. Taking the stage after Irvine, Kaplan gave the details of his blackjack experience. Talking strictly about numbers, he broke down his early career into statistics. His MIT blackjack team set out with $89,000 and doubled...
...Immediately after the shooting, Ben says he and three other soldiers moved to secure the area but saw angry Iraqis shouting "Why, why?" as they ran out of their houses. "We could hear children in the vehicle," he says. "It looked like a scene out of the movie Pulp Fiction. People covered in blood." The soldiers found themselves surrounded by Iraqis and one of the snipers said over the radio he had seen an Iraqi going to get a weapon. This prompted the Australians, in accordance with their orders, to withdraw - making it impossible for them to stay and give...