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...Bucks on the Pitch Your cover claimed that the story "the Big Score" [May 21] would report "How English football ... took American (and Russian) money ... and built the most popular sports league in the world." That statement smacked of American egocentricity and arrogance, which the whole world is fed up with. As you reported, the Premier League started by making deals with ITV and Sky Sports back in the early 1990s. Real fans loathe the new profiteers, who have a limited knowledge of the game. For a great many fans, following your team means everything, and they fear that...
...Latvia, everything changed in 1994 when Russia withdrew the last of its military. Shortly afterward, the Latvian government began auctioning state-owned port facilities to American, Russian, Latvian and Norwegian companies. The port doubled in size as new container and passenger terminals sprang up. At its low ebb, in the early 1990s, only 1,000 ships entered the port each year; now more than 3,600 do so. Hermanis Cernovs, a naturalized Latvian born in Russia, has witnessed the transformation at first hand. When the Iron Curtain fell, he was commander of a Soviet nuclear submarine. Today, he organizes joint...
...Ocean's Twelve so I'd be prepared for the Ocean's Thirteen interview. CLOONEY: You should have been there. There was some deep stuff going on on that one too. BARKIN: [To Damon] I had an accent in that scene, didn't I? I had a Russian accent. Or did [director Steven Soderbergh] make me do it without the accent? DAMON: Yeah, I think he was very polite and was like,"The accent's good. Let's just protect ourselves here and, uh ... " [Laughter] But that scene is on the new dvd they're doing, the "Explosive Extras...
...acting awards went to two performances of grieving spouses. Konstantin Lavronenko was cited for The Banishment, the Russian film about a crumbling marriage, in a slim fortnight for male actors - though Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem would have been more than worthy for their roles in Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men. This was a year for les femmes, with many films about woman isolated in their passion or misery. One of those performances, Jeon Do-yeon's in the Korean Secret Sunshine, was the favorite to take Best Actress...
...outer boroughs who are forced to face moral dilemmas or brutally erase them. The main characters in this new one are a cop father (Robert Duvall) and his two sons, one a cop (Mark Wahlberg), the other (Joaquin Phoenix) the manager of a Brighton Beach nightclub crawling with Russian mobsters. The police are portrayed as stalwart but mostly dewy do-gooders, so they fade in screen appeal next to the Russky tough guys - nothing like a monster mobster with a guttural accent to infuse a little juice into a long, languid character study. There's also a terrific shoot...