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Even if you didn't follow pro wrestling in the 1980s, you would recognize Terry Bollea. With his white-blond ponytail, bodybuilder physique and ever-present bandanna, the man better known as Hulk Hogan (a.k.a. Hollywood Hogan, the Hulkster, the Incredible or simply Mr. America) has ruled the ring since 1984, when he won his first World Wrestling Federation championship. He's been called the industry's "first big iconic star" (Vince McMahon Jr.) and "the greatest of all time" (Muhammad Ali), and he remains the only pro wrestler to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated...
...What's got into Geithner? The short answer: a deadline. With their energy bill stalled, health care dragging out and other initiatives pushed aside, financial reform is a high priority for an Administration in search of wins. Geithner's bosses at the White House are pushing to get a bill to the President for his signature by the end of the year, and Geithner is the point man in making that happen. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...been busy. On Wednesday, Geithner and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel met with House Democrats on the Financial Services Committee, pushing them to accept the deal Geithner had negotiated with committee chairman Barney Frank, which includes new powers for regulators and the Federal Reserve to limit risk among the nation's biggest financial institutions, and to dissolve those institutions in an orderly way if they fail. At the same time, the Senate is moving ahead with its own bill, with talk of a markup in Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd's Banking Committee before Thanksgiving. Treasury has even held...
...ostensible plot is ripped right out of the J-horror handbook: a young married couple travel to an isolated woodland retreat to deal with the grief following their toddler son’s death. In the film’s highly-stylized prologue, the black and white, slow-motion sequence of Dafoe and his wife, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, making intense and explicit love is intercut with their son wandering into the room, witnessing their coitus, climbing out an open window, and falling. The image of the child falling in the snow-filled sky to the sound...
...Japanese films in favor of 1960s Soviet and Chinese films rife with revolutionary ideas. Foreign films are allowed to be shown in some contexts, such as the Pyongyang International Film Festival held every other fall, and in recent weeks state television has occasionally shown Disney films like Snow White, Cinderella and Robin Hood. But a wide selection of foreign films have always been available to the country's élites, having been smuggled in before the 1990s, though never at the rate that happens now. Kim Jong Il, the country's dictator, is said to own a library of more...