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...this point, Rice's tenure as Secretary of State has been long on procedural victories but short on substantive policy results. Her most clear-cut successes have been forging a strategic alliance with India and improving the U.S.'s tattered relationship with its European allies. "She's been a good diplomat in the true sense of the word, going around talking and listening," says Charles Grant, director of the London-based Center for European Reform. "Although America's image hasn't changed, she's blameless in that...
...until the director, the producers and, often, other writers have had their say. But the Oscar-nominated British writers all have long histories with the people they work with, stemming from careers that started in television and the theater. "In British film, there's a very equal and strong relationship between producers, directors and screenwriters," says Richard Curtis, writer of quintessentially British comedies like Notting Hill and Love Actually. "So nobody would ever say to Marber, 'We don't much like what you've done here, let's bring in Tom Stoppard to write a couple of gags...
...this symbiosis that helps keep British cinema flourishing and U.S. cinema interesting. Sometimes, the relationship turns parasitic and British talent gets sucked into the Hollywood machine, never to return home. But most of the time, there's give and take. The U.S. system gives some funding or a distribution deal, and, in return, it gets a good story. Kevin Macdonald's portrait of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin The Last King of Scotland was made with mostly British funding, giving him the freedom to make his movie his way. "If I tried to do The Last King of Scotland through...
It’s possible that the Council fears stressing its relationship with the restaurant industry, but the city should be primarily concerned with resident health, not with political relationships. Any costs that must be swallowed by the restaurant industry or passed along to consumers will be worth the increased benefit to resident health and the long-term decrease in health care costs. Since many restaurants already restrict trans fat use and others are considering limits, the cost of changing should not be vast and, in some cases, can even be neutral. Restaurants just need a focused deadline and direction...
...couldn't make the trek to Park City - or score tickets once they got there - could download nearly half of Sundance's 71 competing shorts at Apple's iTunes Store for just $1.99 a piece. Films for sale include the German motorcycling documentary Motodrom and High Falls, a relationship drama starring real-life couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. That's not a bad deal to discover the next Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze or Alexander Payne - all directors who started out with a Sundance short...