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...Chase,” for example, Marlon Brando refused to use a stunt double in the scene in which his character, Sheriff Calder, is attacked by men living in the surrounding town, insisting that the other actors actually hit him. The fight was shot off-time in order to simulate a real beating. Brando also once convinced the director of the existence of an imaginary Native American tribe; playwright Lillian Hellman had coughing fits whenever an actor paraphrased a line; Penn’s advice to John F. Kennedy ’40 in the first live-television presidential debates...
...odyssey.The novel’s protagonist, Peter Debauer, grew up with his mother in Germany, spending summers at his paternal grandparents’ home in Switzerland. He knew his father through photographs and stories that his grandparents told him; his mother informed him only that his father had been shot during the War. As a child, he kept his grandparents company while they edited novels for anthologies. When Debauer begins reading a submission about a man who returns from the war to find that his wife has remarried only to discover that the end of the novel is missing...
...stadium-rocker, but only because he hadn’t yet recycled the song on each of his succeeding albums. “Where Are We Runnin’?,” from 2004’s “Baptism,” was his best recent shot, but only because the “oo-ee-oo”s in the chorus stuck in listeners’ heads for longer than they should have. What Kravitz needs to eventually realize is that “catchy” is not a synonym for “repetitive...
...Cube opens with the now-obligatory pre-music skit, this time set in a dystopian futuristic classroom in which the teacher is brainwashing kids about the evils of gangsta rap (“COMPTON WAS A NATURE PRESERVE FOR BUNNY RABBITS!”). The rest of the video (shot mostly in black and white) intersperses angry Cube on a black background with footage of controversial world news, from 9/11, to Dan Quayle stomping on a 2Pac album, to a protest of the Jena 6, to the 2004 Malice in the Palace sparked by Ron Artest. Think...
...long as Obama has a real shot at the top spot, there's no need to entertain the Veep talk. As a top Obama aide said, "That's not where this campaign's head is at." Instead, the Obama camp had been expecting the Veep proffer for weeks, just as it had expected the Clinton campaign to play the race card after New Hampshire. Obama headquarters was fully aware that the Clintons had badly overplayed their hand in the days leading up to South Carolina-so badly that Bill or Hillary would have to make some peace offering to Obama...