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...comes from Kazunari Ninomiya as common soldier Saigo. Hoping to return home to his pregnant wife, Saigo breaks from the traditional Japanese codes of honor, struggling to persevere even with no hope of Japanese victory rather than honorably committing suicide for the country. Through the journey, Eastwood reveals the stark contrast between Japanese and American mentalities of honor...
...points to lead all players and grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds to pace the Crimson’s Ivy road win. And to top it off, Moretzsohn also dropped eight of her 18 points over the final three minutes of the second period.Her singular performance stood in stark contrast to the player who stepped onto the court only one day earlier. Against Columbia, Moretzsohn, put up only six points but managed to lead the team with two blocks and added one steal to finish the night with only 14 minutes of action. Defensively, the sophomore set a formidable presence...
...photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank made a documentary about the first Rolling Stones tour of North America after the tragedy of four deaths at Altamont Free Concert two years earlier. The film was called Cocksucker Blues, after a song Mick Jagger wrote to anger record company executives with its stark, homoerotic lyrics and the aggressive manner in which he sings them. Although the movie was originally commissioned by the Stones themselves, they blocked its release when they saw the scenes of drug use and graphic groupie sex. After years of legal headaches, the band and Frank agreed to a sort...
...above the title on many of his plays and movies, a rare honor for a playwright and an all but unprecedented one for a screenwriter who is not also a director. Virtually anything Simon writes will be produced?if he permits it. His collaborator on nine films, Producer Ray Stark, says Simon "will bring in the most wonderful material and then, two weeks later, when I ask where it is, he will reply, 'Not good enough.' He still has a wonderful humility about his work and has about 150 first acts in his trunk." Simon's motivation seems...
...ethnic groups now live even further apart than they did when blood flowed on Malaysian streets. Segregation starts early: Only 6% of Malaysian Chinese parents today send their kids to Malay-dominated government elementary schools, compared with more than 50% two decades ago. The trend is only slightly less stark for Indian children. Indeed, the ethnic separation has gotten so bad that in December, Malaysia's usually understated Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi labeled race relations ?fragile...