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...Linklater (Dazed and Confused, School of Rock) usually sticks to contemporary stories, or ones set in the recent past. (An exception, The Newton Boys, a 1920s-set western, was his least memorable film.) Nothing about Me and Orson Welles suggests a directorial affinity for period pieces. When a vintage ambulance pulls up to transport Welles around Manhattan, you half expect the prop master to pop out and buff the hood with pride. But Linklater's great strength lies in showing how "families" form in unexpected places, especially when it's a question of putting on a show. Here...
...particular preparation to get yourself into the mind-set to portray Omar? Yeah, I did a lot of research into what it means to be a black man in Baltimore. I wanted Omar to look, sound and feel like someone who was born and raised in Baltimore - not a New York kid trying to portray that. So I had to learn the Baltimore dialects so the writing could sound authentic. They'd write things like "Do tell?" and "How do?" We don't talk like that in Brooklyn. I thought, What does that mean? "Do tell?" That's not gangster...
...also set a precedent of sorts last month when it announced that it would shut down the Saturn brand completely after a deal to sell it to the Penske Automotive Group also fell apart at the last minute. GM has stopped building Pontiacs, and Hummer is in the process of being sold to a Chinese manufacturer of heavy equipment...
...Race Opens With Media Rush,” Crimson writers reported that “the ‘Long-Johnson’ ticket… seems to be taking the race less seriously” than the other candidates. Our campaign would like to set the record straight and send a message to our opponents and the student body: this campaign is serious. While it may be true that Long-Johnson (note to Crimson editors: no quotation marks needed) has had a slow start in the campaign, let it be known that we are preparing to hit the ground...
Epstein did remain optimistic when he concluded that “a set of complementary solutions that are good for public health,” if adopted by the U.S. government, could combat the bleak findings of the studies...