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Thanks to their money-in-the-bank track record, studios trust them, so Kennedy and Marshall manage to talk executives into some extraordinary things. Shortly before the opening of The Bourne Supremacy, Marshall got a call from its star, Matt Damon, who was on the Lake Como, Italy, set of Ocean's 12. Damon had talked with a screenwriter there and come up with an ending for Supremacy that he and the director, Paul Greengrass, liked better than the original, which left test audiences unmoved. "I said, 'Matt, the movie comes out in two weeks. What are you talking about...
...lives since the 1970s, have entered an uneasy lull. In recent weeks, however, the Arroyo administration has been beset by fresh allegations of corruption, giving the impression of a government under siege. Last week, former President Fidel Ramos, a widely respected figure, warned Arroyo that she was losing public trust: "I have told her, reform yourself before you talk about reforming other people and institutions...
...autonomy of any sort when it comes to sex. She is joined by feminists like former Harvard Law Professor Susan Estrich, whose book “Real Rape” essentially suggested that women are always coerced into sex. Effectively, according to these theorists, we can’t trust women who say they make choices of their own free will—women are always victims. MacKinnon’s argument, that poor women only go into porn because they are coerced, could just as well apply to poor people who choose other “demeaning?...
...quality of life for a casino moratorium. With proper implementation, expanded gambling will inject Massachusetts with much-needed energy and money. It is narrow-minded to deny these benefits to the Commonwealth while pointing to overblown social consequences. For instance, the argument that casinos will bankrupt poor people who trust their fortunes to fate neglects their free will and assumes that they cannot think and act for themselves. And to maintain a social conscience, part of the new revenue will also be used to treat gambling addictions—which, thanks to Connecticut’s casinos, are nothing...
...alternate reality” by “spending hundreds of millions on self-aggrandizing propaganda.” And the Fourth Estate has been central to holding the White House in check, she said. “The American public just has a wonderful sense of who they trust and who they don’t,” she said. “Sometimes they can get fooled, but they can judge only by what they have at hand.” Before Dowd’s speech, Alex S. Jones, the director of Shorenstein Center...