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...bravery? Filming and financing what, if the story is taken seriously, is a corrosive challenge to Christianity. But having made the bold decision to film the novel, Howard hasn't the energy to slap the thing to life. He's like a guide on one of the countless Da Vinci Code tours of Paris or London, doing it by rote, letting the film hobble to its climax with still more exposition. Good movies are show-and-tell; this one is all-tell, no-show...
...Jordan Nott had spent less than 48 hours in the psychiatric ward he checked himself into, in October 2004, when he received a terse letter from George Washington University informing the sophomore that he had been suspended for being a danger to himself and others. "It was a huge slap in the face," says Nott, 20. "They don't hand out this letter that says, 'We want you to get help.' What it says is, 'You've been suspended; you've been barred from campus.'" The letter went on to explain that if he returned to campus, he would...
...oversize--and overwhite--thighs in the infamous jogging shorts, and there was no end to the snarky media remarks about his ballooning girth on the campaign trail. The heart blockages that probably would have cost him his life without his 2004 bypass surgery were a long-in-coming slap in the face, waking him up to his problem and to the way he could parlay it into some public good. If it took an old red hunter like Richard Nixon to go to China, perhaps it would take an old chowhound like Clinton to go to war against junk foods...
...Unfortunately,” Katz adds, “DJ Cop Killer only used those notes.” “He and I don’t get along well,” Mitnick says. “Some of the scenes are purely sort of slap-stick, and some of them are very slow-moving, and then some of them just have some meth addict running around on stage,” Pope says of the play’s variety. Although one can receive what the producers call “a seating experience?...
...Slap of Whack Bar,” says the voiceover, “for when you’re feeling wacky...