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...with the festival,” he says. “I still want to get the film out there and give it as much life as I can.” In addition, Chazelle says, “Guy and Madeline” acts as the stepping-stone for future projects, whether they are low-budget or Hollywood production. “I’d like to ideally do both because I don’t really see them as being mutually exclusive,” Chazelle says. “My interests in movies are varied...
...process lost more credibility when news came out that banks will be able to challenge the results of the tests between when they get them this Friday and when they will be set in stone the following Tuesday. According to The New York Times, "The banks will then have until Tuesday to dispute any of the findings." And, what will the results of any disputes be? Will banks be able to get the government to change conclusions? Or is the action just a courtesy...
...Crowe, 45, he's a tabloid scribe's dream, a paparazzo's enemy and the occasional hotel employee's worst nightmare. He's also the rare dramatic actor whose chameleonic intensity has lifted the quality of nearly every film he's been in, ever since Sharon Stone brought him to Hollywood for The Quick and the Dead in 1994. As a compromised cop in L.A. Confidential, a tobacco executive in The Insider, a wily negotiator with South American kidnappers in Proof of Lifeand so many more, Crowe has been able to erase his thuggish public persona the moment he steps...
...blood out of a stone. Many economists have been concerned that the collapse of print, television, and internet display advertising is a strong indicator of how the broad economy is performing. Marketers in these media range from large drug firms spending tens of millions of dollars to small mechanic shops putting classified ads in the local newspaper. If all of these forms of adverting are down 25% to 35% it means that many, many businesses cannot even afford to invest in acquiring new customers. That, as much as any other sign, shows the depth of the recession's effect...
...government land privatization schemes have failed to give the Tatars a fair share. Some have resorted to seizing land on which to build new homes. These often ramshackle settlements are scattered on barren land throughout Simferopol, immediately recognizable by their tiny stone houses on what look like permanent building sites. "We're not asking for favors," says Rustem Khalilov, who lives in Yani Qirim, a settlement built in Simferopol on land seized in 2006 and which now houses 80 families. "We just want somewhere to live. If we had been given land, we wouldn't need to seize...