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...hired by the bosses at large companies to tell their employees they're no longer employed. And he does so with such ostensible sympathy that the victims often leave the interview without wanting to kill him. He's a head chopper who comes off as a grief counselor. The real villains are the bosses who don't have the guts to fire people face to face...
...accounts, the chemistry between the two leads was intense, maybe too intense. "After I cast him, I told Rob, Don't even think about having a romance with her," Hardwicke says. "She's under 18. You will be arrested." It was the beginning of the real-life are-they-aren't-they, did-they-didn't-they speculation that is now an ongoing subplot of the Twilight story. "I didn't have a camera in the hotel room. I cannot say," Hardwicke says. "But in terms of what Kristen told me directly, it didn't happen on the first movie...
...they don't know what New York is or recognize names like Darwin and Plato. The official belief is that there is no outside world: "There is only the Village." (The few who believe rumors of "another place" come to a bad end.) Are Six's memories even real? Is the Village...
...pretentious one. If it's not always clear what's dream and what's reality in the Village, it's also not always clear what's complexity and what's affectation in The Prisoner. And it doesn't help that Caviezel's blank, charmless performance gives us no real anchor or connection with his quest...
Capitalism didn't fail us, publishing heir Forbes and his co-author argue. We failed capitalism by getting in its way. As if we're the ones who created the sleazy subprime mortgages and exotic derivatives (graded phony AAA by real capitalists) that blew up the system. It's the standard Forbes canon: government and taxes bad; rich people good. The pair dutifully round up free-market evangelists from Smith to Hayek to Friedman to support their apologia but fail to add any real insight. Capitalism works, all right, but not like this...