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...most Brazilians are embarrassed by the situation and believe Sean should be reunited with his family. Several of the almost 2,000 responses to an online story in the Rio newspaper O Globo accused the Lins e Silvas of "kidnapping" the boy. Some criticized what they called a stunt by the boy's step-grandmother of displaying to the press hand-painted posters purportedly written by the child that declared "I want to stay in Brazil forever." Others online commenters argued that another family without the name or legal background of the Lins e Silvas would have not secured such...
...expect a healthy dose of political posturing before, during and after the President's meeting with top bankers Monday. "It's a p.r. stunt," says an executive at one of the banks that will be getting a dressing-down at the White House meeting. Executives from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are expected to be among those in attendance. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...whose wives think they're dead and marry someone else. All these motifs appear in the script that Anders Thomas Jensen wrote for Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish film Brodre, of which Brothers is a nearly scene-by-scene, sometimes line-by-line, Americanization. Except for a few stunt exercises, like Gus Van Sant's Psycho and Michael Haneke's remake of his own Funny Games, I can't think of a movie that so closely adheres to its original. (The new film's only capitulation to Hollywood dogma is the way it reduced its characters' ages from about...
What was your favorite Lady Gaga stunt? YouTube links are considered appropriate answers...
Michaele Salahi, who is currently striving to become one of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of D.C.,” likely pulled the stunt in order to garner media attention and increase her chance of being chosen for the television show. It seems like this pair of Virginia socialites with a (deservedly) unflattering reputation wanted to attract the spotlight without doing anything to truly merit it. Their tactics—including posting photos of the event on Facebook—reveal as much...