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...MBTA authority. “The T is concerned about all individuals who act in an erratic fashion,” said Pesaturo. “This threat turned out to be harmless and we got things under control very quickly, but hopefully, anyone else who wants to make stupid comments will think again.” Toomey, a resident of Arlington, Mass., is a bibliographic assistant at the University who works in the library’s technical services division in Central Square, according to Beth S. Brainard, director of communications for the Harvard College Library. Brainard declined...
...fold a page into a paper airplane to fly off in). It's a gorgeous, fanciful book. It's also a kind of recursive meta-fiction that I didn't encounter before reading John Barth in college. Someday the kids will read the original tale and wonder why the stupid straw-house pig doesn't just hop onto the next bookshelf. Likewise, Shrek reimagines Puss in Boots as a Latin tomcat--but what kid today even reads Puss in Boots in the original...
...audience to believe that the FBI couldn’t find the island the prisoners were fighting on to rescue the American convicts? You cannot teach such deep lessons in a film without developing a plot, providing round characters, and actually making sense. Otherwise, everything feels forced and stupid. No matter what Wiper throws in to make his film more than the average action flick, the film’s core audience will not focus on social commentary—they will focus on the fact that Steve Austin is the man. Don’t waste your money unless...
...isms that set the tone on set - like a serious case of mellow. Yes, the man who made his money howling songs with names like "Pussy Liquor" on stage turns out to be one of those quietly meticulous directors rather than a raving David O. Russell type. "Yelling is stupid," Zombie says, by way of explanation. Oh, and here's another surprise: Mr. Most Cinematic Human Roadkill Scene Ever (in The Devil's Rejects) doesn't like gratuitous violence. "I didn't want to get into this trend of creative ways to kills people," he says. "I like violence when...
...course, another movie that fanboys were panting about at Comic-Con was last summer's Snakes on a Plane, which New Line Cinema pumped to the Web audience but declined to screen for mainstream critics. "We thought it was a stupid title, but we wanted to see it," says Garabedian. "There was swearing, snakes biting into breasts." But the fanboys are outsiders for a reason: the rest of America doesn't always share their taste. And the poor performance of Grindhouse, the double feature from two fanboy deities, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, shows that fanboy love...