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...than a dozen arrests. On his way to sobriety, he became perhaps the only writer in history to be rejected by both Baywatch Nights and Red Shoe Diaries before landing a job on NYPD Blue under celebrated writer guru David Milch. But struggling for years imbued him with an uncommon sense of purpose. After winning an Oscar for Traffic in 2001, Gaghan turned down seven-figure offers to write the fourth Indiana Jones movie and adapt The Da Vinci Code. Instead, inspired by an anecdote about an oil lobbyist in See No Evil, a memoir by former CIA officer Robert...
...instead to Million Dollar Baby. Then, backstage at the 2004 Academy Awards (at which his Mystic River was a multiple nominee), Eastwood encountered Spielberg, and before the evening was out, they agreed to a Flags co-production, with Eastwood directing. Shortly thereafter, the project began to elicit an uncommon, almost obsessive, interest from its director. He has not often attempted fact-based movies, and he had never undertaken one that contained such huge combat scenes. He began to read more widely and deeply on the subject. And he began talking to both American and Japanese veterans of Iwo Jima, which...
...uncommon to fear speaking in public. But with Microsoft readying a revamp of its ubiquitous PowerPoint, Apple leaping ahead with its user-friendly Keynote 2, and new gadgets and software making it easier to shine up your speeches, now's the perfect time to conquer stage fright with some cool new tools...
That kind of gratuitous cruelty isn't all that uncommon in The Beatles. The Fab Four hated the silly, lovable mop-top image they created, and on that score alone they would probably love Spitz's book. He marshals a staggering mass of research in support of the conclusion, broadly speaking, that Lennon was a drug-addled, attention-hungry rageoholic who picked fights and cheated on his wife; Paul McCartney was a smarmy, manipulative charmer; and George Harrison was dour and sour. Before you lose faith entirely, it turns out Ringo really was just a lovable goofball...
...90’s, at Penn for the heartbreaker in 2000, even to non-league Fordham one sunny afternoon. Therefore I carry the pride that I entered the Harvard ranks with an uncanny wealth of background knowledge, an unusual steeping in the history and lore of the team, an uncommon disposition to devotion.I thought vainly that they’d fall on their faces. I should have known better. Didn’t we all get in here by near-acing a multiple-choice test?Everyone knew the current season was halfway done and that the archrival we play...