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...NEAL THOMPSON...
With clean-cut sponsors like Tide, the U.S. Army and Nextel fueling NASCAR's multibillion-dollar engine, stock-car racing's seedy past has been buried beneath the track. Thompson exhumes the sport's Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history. Painting NASCAR as "the accidental sport of Southern moonshiners," he recounts wildly entertaining stories of how late-1930s racing pioneers like Lloyd Seay, who was later murdered by his cousin, and "Reckless" Roy Hall, a jailbird, honed their craft during bootlegging runs, dodging the law on dusty Georgia back roads...
...time screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life is being narrated by the voice of British novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson).Needless to say, it’s a rather upsetting situation, especially when Eiffel announces Crick’s “imminent” death. From there, the plot proceeds predictably as Harold strives to live his life to the fullest and, of course, bag the girl...
...surer aim at getting through the brain to the heart. Zack Helm's script imagines a decent, solitary fellow named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), then springs the notion that he may well be a fiction--a character in a work in progress by reclusive novelist Karen (Kay) Eiffel (Emma Thompson). And when Kay figures out how to kill off the character, Harold will...
...defense held firm in a 10-1 thrashing of the Big Green. In the season-opening rematch, the score was once again lopsided, but this time it was Harvard (0-1-0, 0-1-0 ECAC) on the short end of a 5-2 score on Friday night at Thompson Arena. With the officials calling frequent penalties, especially in the early going, it became evident that performance on the power play would play a large part in determining the final score, and the Crimson was unable to take advantage of any of the opportunities it received. “They...