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...speech accepting an award for the very commercial The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep urged audiences to ask their local theater owners for more independent films, like Volver. After accepting a Globe for his NBC show 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin praised an indie he had no part of, Half Nelson, backstage. The only person to stand up for big-budget multiplex-seat-filling films was Ben Stiller, who plugged his blockbuster Christmas movie Night at the Museum. Thank God someone remembered what this night is all about...
...father-and-son." The grown-up was intensely lonely, had worked at a pizzeria for 25 years where he tended to talk all day, particularly about video games. The "son," his face studded with the occasional piece of punk jewelry, loved the loud, awful music of the shock-rock group Insane Clown Posse, banging on the walls of the apartment they shared, to the consternation of the neighbors. Few suspected that the relation might have been born of a crime...
...None of this bodes well for Detroit, of course, or Asian manufacturers like Hyundai and Kia, which largely target budget shoppers. The Chinese cars are expected to carry rock-bottom prices along with generous warranties to ease concerns about their quality and long-term reliability. Since the Chinese exporters have such low labor costs - around $2 an hour - they can afford to pack the cars with standard features like electronic stability control, antilock brakes and rear-view cameras for parking assistance. Nor are the cars being designed with drab proleterian styling. The highly regarded Italian design shop Pininfarina produced...
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Charles Spearin is the tallest member of Broken Social Scene, a Canadian indie-rock band. He’s also one of its founders, playing primarily bass but dabbling in other instruments on each of the band’s four full length albums. His own band, Do Make Say Think, a post-rock band whose long, intricate compositions recall Godspeed You Black Emperor, has also been rapidly gaining fans by touring with Broken Social Scene. On a rainy night before a concert in Providence, Spearin sat down for an interview with The Harvard Crimson, but one which he stipulated...