Word: résumé
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...begins the 32nd day of shooting at the Beijing Film Studio in China, where Tarantino is adding to his r?sum? as a writer, director and profligate spiller of fake blood. His latest project, Kill Bill, a revenge tale whose body count is belied by its simple title, is the 39-year-old American filmmaker's homage to the fight flicks that sparked his lifelong obsession with Asian cinema. The film, due out in the fall of 2003, is something of a departure for the upstart auteur, who is back on the set after a six-year break from directing...
...When Missing Gun was released in China last month, Beijing cineasts thought they saw a bit of Jiang behind the camera as well as on the screen. The film's director is Lu Chuan, a 28-year-old film school grad with only commercials on his r?sum?. Certain scenes convinced people that Jiang ghost-directed the movie. Not so, insists Lu. "Jiang Wen played a very important role making the movie," he says, leaning forward emphatically in his Hawaiian shirt, "but he spent only 40 days on set. We've worked on this project for two years...
...United after an impressive college career, there were doubts he could handle pro players. United won back-to-back MLS Cup titles. When he was named coach of the U.S. team in October of '98, there was clamoring that the team needed a leader with a glittering international r?sum?, not some local from Brooklyn...
...obsessively after him, for some reason - denying that he'd ever questioned Bush's qualifications to be president. When it finally came around to Bush, he quickly took the high road - "Yes, I take him for his word" - before launching into a decent but totally unnecessary defense of his r?sum?, which of course neither Gore nor Lehrer had even asked for. Bush tried all night to attack Gore's character; why not do it now, when he's got Gore dead to rights and Lehrer on his side...
...could speak English. He had a car. The family had moved out of West Hollywood to Studio City. He had sent out letters to four-year colleges, looking for a scholarship, but without a boxful of blue ribbons and medals, he didn't have much of a r?sum?. Not one college was interested. "What can you do for the 100-yard back?" Blumkin asked. "Fifty-five seconds," Krayzelburg said...