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After making some complusory opening remarks and introducing the film, Jones leaves the theater allowing the audience to soak up what is being billed as the final installment in Stone's Vietnam trilogy ("Platoon," "Born on the Fourth of July"). Based on the autobiographical memoirs of Le Ly Haslip, the movie chronicles the harrowing odyssey of a Vietnamese woman as she trades her war-torn homeland for an alien America. Jones, who plays Sgt. Steve Butler, Le Ly's jaded and abusive G.I. husband, says the film is "not about war, but more about the soul." The movie, which...
...common," said a detective on the narcotics unit at the Cambridge Police Department. "They cut it open and fill it up with marijuana then soak it in alcohol...It lasts longer and it hides the smell of marijuana, but when you see a 14-year-old kid smoking a cigar, you know something...
Sports franchises are like sponges which soak up disposable income from all parts of a city and collect in all in a very small area, often hurting small business from other parts of the city...
...firmly committed to small-business growth, we cannot succeed as a country," he said in a hurriedly arranged appearance before a group of small-company executives. His message did little to silence their gripes, most notably the complaint that provisions in the House and Senate tax bills designed to soak the rich will drown small enterprises. That is because about 80% of businesses in the U.S. pay taxes at the same rate as individuals rather than corporations. While big companies will see their income taxes rise just 1 percentage point, from 34% to 35%, prosperous small firms assessed...
...including performing Proud Mary top to bottom. They gave you four or five scenes -- young Tina, '60s Tina, '70s Tina, dragged-down-the-hall-and-get-a-fra ctured-left-hand Tina. It was rough." So was the filming. Bassett really did fracture her hand, and she had to soak her feet in ice after two 17-hour days of shooting the Proud Mary number in 3-in. heels. The only sour note for some is that Bassett's final number was replaced by footage of the real Turner. Bassett does not complain. "People want me to feel badly about...