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...trust. After the Internet boom blew out and their stock and 401(k) holdings evaporated, it was nice to find someone--anyone--who seemed to be fighting on their behalf. By taking on Wall Street, Spitzer clearly touched a chord. At the exclusive University Club in midtown Manhattan, under tall marble columns resembling those of an Italian palazzo, a well-dressed gentleman walks through a crowd toward Spitzer just to say, "Keep it up, Eliot!" Later, outside the attorney general's office near Wall Street, a young man crossing the street recognizes Spitzer and calls out, "Don't give...
...PLAY YOURSELVES? Linda: No. I'd find somebody who's far thinner and more beautiful. What's the point in having your life portrayed if you can't have it glamorized? I'd want it to be a Latina actress--Cameron Diaz would be nice. I've never been tall and thin like that. Loretta: I've got a big booty, so I guess I'd have to go with...
Though the crepe of impending war hangs over Towers, the film is vivid with melodrama, conflicted love and potent new characters. Treebeard, a tall sylvan sage reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of George Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex, a damned creature slipping in and out of his own private hell. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals a complex pathos and a facility of expression no human actor could match. He is another example of Jackson's pursuit...
...World War II, denied that his tale was analogous to that great battle. Believe who will. But it is hard to miss connections with a new struggle. The Fellowship can be seen as Western democracies now besieged by the lunatic faction of Islamic fundamentalism. (Saruman, as played by the tall, lean, bearded Lee, looks eerily like Osama bin Laden.) The enemy's power seems overwhelming, untouchable; its ruthlessness makes strong nations shiver. "So much death," King Theoden says. "What can men do against such reckless hate?" Aragorn replies, "Ride out to meet them...
...have been the heap of counterevidence—including sworn affidavits by Tulane and Harvard coaches suggesting Minuto had exaggerated his football credentials to Murphy and Tall. Or it may have been the sheer implausibility of winning admission on the strength of alleged promises by an Ivy League football coach—especially since Harvard admissions offers described Minuto as “very weak academically.” (Minuto’s transfer application, public record since being introduced in the suit, reveals a 3.33 grade point average at Tulane his first semester, a 1260 SAT score...