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...great career break - he's awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant, giving him a few hundred thousand dollars to pursue his theatrical dreams - will slowly break him over the rest of his long, increasingly demented life. Caden moves to Manhattan, rents a warehouse and in it constructs a smaller version of the city outside. Hiring a huge cast, he sets out to assemble an epic of ordinariness. His second wife, Claire (Michelle Williams), will be the star; the ever-loyal Hazel is his assistant. A stalker named Sammy (Tom Noonan) has got the job of portraying Caden; "I've been following...
...John McCain's peremptory selection of Governor Sarah Palin has come to seem a liability, it could be argued that Obama's quiet selection of Joe Biden defined the public's choice in the general-election campaign. But not every decision can be made so carefully. There are a thousand instinctive, instantaneous decisions that a presidential candidate has to make in the course of a campaign - like whether to speak his mind to a General Petraeus - and this has been a more difficult journey for Obama, since he's far more comfortable when he's able to think things through...
...order to pay the 150,000 Afghanis ($3000) bribe he thought he needed to secure a lucrative post in the northern province of Takhar, only to learn his mistake a day later: the request for 150,000 referred to dollars, not the local currency. "One hundred and fifty thousand Afghanis didn't seem like a lot of money, and I thought I could help my people at the same time," he says...
...yard touchdown catch of his own in last week’s game against Cornell that garnered him Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors.Somehow lost in the fanfare surrounding this wideout carousel is junior Matt Luft. After two years under the wing and shadow of fellow Thousand Oaks High School graduate Corey Mazza ’07-’08, Luft has quietly developed into a star, and Harvard senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti’s favorite option.“I know everyone’s talked about depth, but the one guy who?...
...opening scene of director Wayne Wang’s new film “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” suitcase after suitcase slides slowly down an airport conveyer belt in a methodical, mundane rhythm. The scene’s sparse style illuminates the beauty and bleakness of everyday life. And while Wang’s film, which quietly examines a strained father-daughter relationship, is no plot-thriller, it does lull the audience into a peaceful state with its calming, metrical scenes and restrained, spare dialogue. “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers?...