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...despite the fact that she is hidden behind a mirror during their courtship while he is trying to exploit her. They immediately click when she catches him trying to steal an expensive first edition of a book. In the film’s best scene, Penelope devises a scheme to figure out which instrument Max plays but will not reveal. The montage of Max playing a series of instruments while badly singing “You Are My Sunshine” with a full backup band is priceless. Penelope, too, finds Max endearing and reveals herself to him, but runs...
...rupiah, or about $4,500 - with an initial payment of 8 million rupiah - because she says even the full amount is not enough for her to buy a new home. Teryana, the Lapindo vice president, says the company hopes the holdout villagers can be persuaded to accept the compensation scheme...
...moral of the Bay of Pigs is "Beware of charisma" or "Timeworn trumps callow," what do we make of the mistakes and miscalculations of deeply experienced leaders? Franklin D. Roosevelt's failed court-packing scheme, for example, or Woodrow Wilson's postwar foreign policy? For that matter, Kennedy would not have faced such a harsh early tutorial if the venerable warrior and statesman Dwight D. Eisenhower had not allowed the Cuba-invasion plan to be put in motion during the last of his eight years as President...
...mins. and starts all over again, in be-kind-rewind fashion, and we get the perspectives of President Ashton (William Hurt), two of his Secret Service bodyguards (Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American tourist bystander (Forest Whitaker) and a few of the terrorists as they develop their scheme and attempt their escape...
...incapable of principled gestures, which may or may not make the world a better place, however pleasing they may be to your own ego. Which says nothing about mega-history, the movement of which as the war develops, will determine the fate of these men and the grand, mad scheme they're obliged to serve...