Word: sags
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...work gathering footage of Cabot House seniors for the documentary. Over Spring Break, Lawler and a five-person crew went down to Cape Cod to film his screenplay of Angel Walk. They had a cast that included Harvard students and some members of the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG). The Screen Actors’ Guild has what they call a “Student Contract,” which allows student films to pay less than scale for actors. In the case of Angel Walk, this meant paying them nothing, since Lawler was personally responsible for all the costs...
...which on the map looks like a boot giving the fat brown snake of the Mekong a kick in the belly, is a conservationist's paradise: a kind of colonial Disneyland with lane after unspoiled, palm-fringed lane filled with French brick and stucco buildings and teakwood homes that sag with age. On almost every corner and rise sits a temple: there are more than 30, some half a millennium old. The golden sweep of their winglike roofs seems to suspend them in the hazy skies. The place is so photogenic the local Kodak concession must be a license...
...Over the past five years, Asian filmmakers have become cinematic darlings in the West, and now too many of them seem to want to highlight their Asian-ness rather than the character development, coherent narrative and compelling dialogue that make for great movies. The pictures crawl and the stories sag under the weight of ponderous orientalism and languorous panoramas reminding us we are in Asia?you know, the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But filmmakers like Zhu Wen and Jeong would do well to remember that just because a film is Chinese or Korean, this doesn't automatically make...
...Wall Street, of course, has developed a well-deserved reputation for rustling up rallies (or tech-stock bubbles) by dint of sheer will and optimism, only to sag mournfully when reality refuses to cooperate. Investors tried this trick before, pushing the Dow above 10,000 in December and January on hopeful corporate and economic news - only to run into Enronitis. Now they're back at it, and even if the next few sessions take some of the steam out - there's always profit-taking and second-guessing, even when herd is celebrating - the cries of "bottom," for the economy...
...Blanchett. Of the five, Tomei’s and Smith’s films are the most prominent in the Oscar race, and will lift the actresses to nominations. The category’s fifth space will probably fall to the ever-lauded Winslet, although Diaz’s SAG nomination makes her almost as likely to take the spot. Meanwhile, Blanchett, though an invariably wonderful actress, will unfortunately see her support split among several films this year...