Word: theming
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...thinking of the biopic's subject when they chose the music to be played before the curtain went up. But the subliminal connection with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was hard to ignore: "You're the One That I Want," "I Will Always Love You," the theme to the James Bond and Rocky flicks and then - almost inevitably - just moments before the film began, the uplifting bars of the theme to Superman...
...make a movie about a man who can't make a movie. And since the notion was just slightly autobiographical, the movie would be made, in a way, by the man the movie is about. The premise contained its own absurdity - nobody makes a movie without a script, a theme, a setting - but 8-1/2 was a work of great bustle and brio, built around the exhausted, passive Guido (Marcello Mastroianni). Finally, at the point of suicide, Guido has an epiphany: he will put his problems, his job, his life, all his women, into the circus of a movie...
...They love talking about the government plan, insurance companies, overseas surgery outfits, electronic medical records. Often, I enjoy it too. It can slow down office hours but it beats droning on about glucosamine. From many hours of chat with many patients like Tony and Ira has emerged one strong theme: "Get it while you still...
...right to play and have fun, but they also have a right to sustainable development that includes health, education and protection, says María Jesús Gomez, head of the Nicaraguan Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations Working with Children and Adolescents (CODENI). Gomez says the Happy Children theme park is not a sustainable strategy to deal with problems facing children in the hemisphere's second-poorest country after Haiti...
...Instead of having a festival of happy children, they should have a festival of safe children," Zalaquett said. "If you want to make children happy, you have to make them safe." For a lot of the boys at the Sandinista theme park, however, happiness this Christmas might be an arms cache from Santa...