Word: twistings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Canadian study of every screenwriter ever considered for an Oscar shows that to win the golden guy--as opposed to being nominated--shortens life expectancy by 3.6 years. Last spring the same researchers found that actors who win live 3.9 years longer. Why the plot twist? Success seems to kill screenwriters because, unlike actors, they needn't worry about public scrutiny and are freer to smoke, sleep less and generally lead unhealthy lives...
...Major League Baseball resolves to let owners do their own contracting by making the rules of the game simple. Give each team a salary cap, with a twist: Big-market teams with fat local TV contracts (or anyone else with itchy purse strings) may spend, say, 25 percent more if they so choose. But no more spiraling salaries and free-agent bidding wars. Organized baseball is a cartel by definition, and a viable entertainment concern only in its entirety. Let all its teams at least play in the same ballpark...
...Berlin could twist his lyrics to make fun of himself and others. During the Vietnam War, the Republican composer wrote a new version of his anthem to tweak his left-wing friend, the lyricist E.Y. Harburg: "God bless America,/Land I enjoy,/ No discussions with Russians/ Till they stop sending arms to Hanoi." He also knew that, at the right moment, patriotism could sell songs...
...DEEP END It's a great twist--a woman (Tilda Swinton, right) and her blackmailer (Goran Visnjic) fall in love. She's trying to protect her son from extortion, but she can't protect herself from the soulful, vulnerable man who wants her cash. The result, co-directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, is an elegant, romantically doomy movie that rises well above its precipitating gimmick...
...using her bachelor brother's sperm via in vitro fertilization made her repugnant to many. In the world's first case of clinical incest, the siblings duped a California fertility doctor into helping them become mom and dad - and aunt and uncle - to a baby boy. In a further twist, the boy was joined by a sister a week later after a surrogate mother, also impregnated with the brother's seed, delivered a baby girl...