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...entrance to the Jade Temple, one sign said admission cost 10 yuan, another said 20 yuan. My parents insisted that it said 10 yuan in the guidebook, and they wanted to pay that. The lady selling the tickets had limited English, so MacDuff was supposed to translate our request...
...vulnerable spots: his girlfriend Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal, assuming the role Katie Holmes had in the first film) and his hidden identity. So the Joker starts preying on Rachel, and he says he'll stop terrorizing Gotham if Batman will come out from under the mask. A modest request from the bin Laden of movie villains, yet Bruce is reluctant. Or rather, the film is, since the informing principle of any franchise is perpetuation of the series. No secret, no Batman - just a moneybags with a Messiah complex...
...vetting process has three steps. According to-and this is per his request-the Brad Pitt of the Washington legal community, Phase 1 involves 30 to 50 potential candidates whose past public records and statements are researched. The people who make it through are then contacted by either the candidate or Mr. Pitt and asked if they want to be considered. Many say no, often because they know something will come out in the vetting process that they'd rather keep quiet. After a long pause, I said I'd like to continue...
...Pitt then ran me through an hour-long version of a process that would normally include a questionnaire and a request for my medical files, tax returns and financial-disclosure reports. He asked the Thomas Eagleton question about mental problems, which I passed. He asked the Zoë Baird question about employing illegal immigrants and not paying their taxes. I confessed I didn't know much about our gardener's citizenship status, given that I tape a $100 check to my door every month that is made out to simply "Rafael." It turns out I'm safely below...
...have film experts, amongst them Rother and Wilkening, confirm its authenticity before exclusively allowing the German weekly Die Zeit to make the findings public. Indeed, it has subsequently come to light that a long version of the film was first sent to Buenos Aires back in 1928 at the request of the Terra film distribution company. A film critic named Manuel Peña Rodríguez obtained the reels, selling them in the 1960s to Argentina's national art fund. A copy was passed to the Buenos Aires museum in 1992, but its value was not realized until...