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...movie has a weird parallel plot. At the start of the film, Spurlock learns that his wife Alexandra Jamieson is pregnant with their first child. He seems zazzed about the prospect - he just has to make his movie first. So WITWIOBL crosscuts from Spurlock in the Middle East to the increasingly bulbous Jamieson in Manhattan, understandably fretful that her beau might die before her baby is born. Spurlock's rationale is that he's got to at least try to make sense out of this crazy geopolitical mess we're in, so he can someday tell his child...
...book allows you, then, to be framed as a certain kind of literary writer.”“These are all things I never would have thought about before I actually wrote the book,” she says. “That’s the weird thing about the publicity: I didn’t realize how much of it would be about talking about who I am and what I have done, instead of it just being about what I wrote.”—Staff writer Alison S. Cohn can be reached...
...your averages. So you need to understand how to place your bets so that it works out. It’s like venture capitalism...And maybe the best method is to have a mixed portfolio, low probability but high return. So the book for me is kind of weird, because I suspended my career for a couple years working on it. But you know, in the end, I was obsessed with Chinese food, so I really didn’t have a choice. THC: It would have caught up with you eventually.JL: Exactly. I mean, I flew to Taipei...
...Downey had a promising career in teen comedies like Weird Science and Back to School A groundbreaking role as a drug addict in Less Than Zero followed, and then, in 1992, came Chaplin. After he finished the shoot, he couldn't bring himself to leave the Swiss location. "I felt like I had just knocked one out of the park. I thought, You know what? This is the big turning point for me," he says. But when he went back to Los Angeles, it became "this huge anticlimactic thing that basically took on different shades of awe, wonder, acceptance, bitterness...
...Savory’s launch, his fellow workers were drawn to the magazine for other reasons. Diana C. Marin ’11, the layout and arts editor, was compelled by Shen’s dedication to the magazine. “I thought it was a little weird at first,” she says. “But Brian has a good idea, and I want to be a part of that...