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...Dylan, and a lot of other talented young folks, wrote and performed terrific songs that opened the minds of people my age, expanded the pop-music vocabulary and generally made listeners feel smarter, cooler, better. And now we have two ambitious movies - Julie Taymor's Across the Universe and Todd Haynes's I'm Not There, both of which played this week at the Toronto Film Festival - that are carpeted with the music of the Fab Four and the man from Hibbing, Minnesota...
...That Obscure Object of Desire, Luis Buñuel famously cast two actresses to play one character (though it wasn't to suggest a dual nature; it was because - who knows why, the man was a surrealist). Two years ago, in Palindromes, Todd Solondz had the lead character, a 12-year-old girl, played by eight actors (including a boy and two adults). Haynes' use makes the most sense, at least the kind of sense a filmmaker can pitch at a backers' meeting, since Dylan did have many lives, all of his own creation...
...very well mean that a family is still living there (get ready to start eviction proceedings), that there's a second mortgage no one bothered to mention, or that the house is in major disrepair (forget about arranging an inspection before an auction). "This isn't for novices," says Todd Beitler, co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying Foreclosures. "There's a lot of research that needs to be done." It's little wonder that about 80% of the time, the company that holds the mortgage on a house buys it at auction...
...even if the Mississippi River ran its course unchanged, New Orleans would be buried by sediment. It would sink faster under the weight. We should not rebuild New Orleans in the same location. No city can exist there for long. We are committing future generations to a similar fate. Todd Johnston, State College...
...discovered it had been relegated to the rankings' equivalent of Siberia, the school decided it would not only stop participating in the U.S. News reputational survey, but would no longer provide any data whatsoever to the magazine. "Sarah Lawrence is taking a stand," says the school's communications director Todd Wilson. "A lot of people who are close to the college might ultimately view this as a point of pride." Then again, a lot of people may not even notice...