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...results were immediate. I started knocking 10,000-word cover stories out of the park like they were baseball game summaries. Slick word combinations were jumping off my keyboard. I could stretch a one-pager into a double truck with ease. Man, I was feeling it. But so were some of my colleagues. Roid rage. It's as ugly in the newsroom as it is in the locker room. One night, I almost took a copy editor's head off for questioning my use of antecedents. My boss had to know, but he steered clear. That's how they...
...loan-sharking business. The two brothers quickly shake up the crime world, systematically stripping Macha of his money and power, while Green is left trying to figure out who his mysterious employers are. Ritchie’s take on the crime world has, as usual, some fascinating moments. His slick style of directing, with its quick cuts and seamless transitions, makes the viewer feel the breakneck speed and confusion of the seamy underbelly. And unlike his other films, Ritchie uses this one to to analyze the philosophical aspects of crime. Namely, he delves into what makes...
Fresh snow and slick streets didn’t deter a large audience from attending the Monday night premiere of a documentary about the Aga Khan—the spiritual leader of millions of the world’s Shi’ite Ismaili Muslims—at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Pacharan is the latest venture from the Indochina Assets Group, whose nearby flagship bar-restaurant, the Foreign Correspondents Club, has long shed its roots as a rowdy journalist hangout to become a slick fixture on the tourist trail. If you fancy a tapeo - that's the Spanish term for a tapas bar crawl - then your next stop is Vietnam, where the group runs a branch of Pacharan in Ho Chi Minh City...
Smith's role as a slick young con man claiming to be Sidney Poitier's son in the 1993 drama Six Degrees of Separation turned some heads. But it was the cheerful, over-the-top 1995 action film Bad Boys that established the erstwhile Prince as a box-office royal in the making. Since then, he has consistently delivered hits, most often as a good-natured guy saving the rest of us from the trauma of aliens, robots, crooks or poor dating habits. Commercial disappointments, like the golfing flop The Legend of Bagger Vance, are rare. "I look at movies...