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...overly earnest, delusionally optimistic troublemaker. Despite a father in jail and a drugged-out mother at home (played by a thoroughly wasted Hope Davis), Charlie approaches life and his new school with a briefcase in hand and a smile plastered on his face. Yelchin clearly has talent but is given little to work with: no amount of acting can give Charlie a sense of depth. The implausibility of Charlie’s character is matched only by the illogical leaps of the plot. After his psychiatrist prescribes him Ritalin to remedy his “concentration problem...
...After those aspirations were finally extinguished with the fall of Benito Mussolini in 1943, post-war Italy used the Marshall Plan's funds to exploit its creative talent to the full. Iconic designs include the Cisitalia 202 Gran Sport, a 1947 automobile whose svelte curves were emblematic of the epoch's streamlined aesthetic; and Piaggia's Vespa 150 GS, similar to the one ridden by Audrey Hepburn in the 1953 film Roman Holiday. Speed also played its part in the golden age of Italian cinema; witness the Lancia Spider that homegrown idol Vittorio Gassman drove in Il Sorpasso...
...precocious high school student, sold Yoyodyne, a direct-marketing firm he founded in 1995, to Yahoo! three years later for a reported $30 million. Now on his 11th best-selling business book, Godin is a Web legend with a cult following and even a Seth Godin action figure. His talent as a writer is to impart his techie zeal without the baggage of geek jargon. "When I send a note to your CEO, who gets it?" he asks wryly, to make a point about eliminating barriers in communicating with customers...
...wants, and expected, to be.“We struggled through December and January,” co-captain Dave MacDonald said. “But if you talk to the people on the team, we’re not surprised to be winning now. We had the talent and the guys to be winning games all along.”Excellent play up and down the roster has been responsible for the recent run, highlighted by some individual exploits.“Doug Rogers and Mike Taylor are really stepping us for us right now,” senior...
...James Dean only had three movie roles before he died at age 24 (two of them released after his death), and yet he was quickly canonized as a transcendent talent: He was nominated posthumously for two Best Actor Oscars, and The American Film Institute ranked him 18th on their list of the greatest stars of American cinema — ahead of legends like the Marx Brothers and actors like Burt Lancaster and William Holden, who won Oscars and earned many more nominations...