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...accent, so we know to take him extra seriously.) This is the first of Romero’s zombie films in which the protagonists are upstaged by their flesh-eating co-stars. Only one character, a dynamite-hurling, deaf Amish man, truly pops off the screen. His scene, although too brief, is one of the most memorable in the film. The structure of the movie also strangely lacks the sense of danger and immediacy that a zombie apocalypse usually warrants. It is essentially a road movie, and yet the destination—the home of the narrating heroine?...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Diary of the Dead | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Writers' Strike? On Feb. 13, screen- and TV writers resumed work after a long strike that cost the Los Angeles County economy some $3.2 billion. Unions tentatively agreed to a three-year contract that, among other things, gives writers a piece of the profits from new media like Internet streams and downloads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...image of the tough broad, surviving and thriving in the Depression through a wily, earthy cynicism. Stanwyck was sensational in grimy melodramas, from Illicit and Night Nurse to the immoral, immortal Baby Face. But she didn't get an Oscar nomination until 1938, when she broke from her normal screen character to play the nobly sacrificing mother in Stella Dallas. Seven years later, when she was a finalist as the rotten femme fatale of Double Indemnity, she lost to Ingrid Bergman, whose husband is trying to kill her in Gaslight. Oscar chose the wanly victimized wife over the fabulously victimizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 800-lb. Golden Gorilla | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...Catholics were just as far off the Kerry campaign's radar screen. In the fall, a Democratic activist and Catholic in Columbus, Ohio, named Eric McFadden approached the campaign about canvassing heavily Catholic counties in Ohio. Democratic volunteers in those areas had been barraged with questions from voters who had been following the Wafer Watch, and they were desperate for materials that could provide a fuller picture of Kerry's Catholicism. McFadden wanted to deliver flyers that highlighted Kerry's faith and the drop in abortion rates during the 1990s. He approached one of the campaign's Ohio field directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dems Finally Get Religion | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...dating, but I’d love to be in a Facebook relationship. 13.) Hey baby, if you get with me, I’ll screw you harder than your Ec 10 final. 14.) I tried to draw a picture of your body on my TI-89, but the screen melted because you’re so hot. 15.) If you need another leadership position, we could be the co-founders of the True Lovin’ Revolution...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 "Unmentionables:" Harvard Pick-Up Lines | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

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