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...Oscar-winning director of Traffic and Erin Brockovich. "Even after that first screening, it's got dirt on it and scratches." It's one of the sad facts of life for anyone who loves movies: film wears out and runs at the mercy of projectors with weak lamps and worn gears...
Perhaps Fairfield’s greatest accomplishment, however, is her casting of Austin S. Guest ’03-’05 as the show’s understated narrator, David. Guest possesses an extraordinary quality of worn innocence that allows him to take childlike pleasure in the stories he tells, while maintaining the gravitas to guide the audience through them. It is a performance of overwhelming humanity...
...contest for macho supremacy, I knew I could not hold par with this Amazonian motorcycle high priestess. For God’s sake, Stith was donning a real motorcycle jacket, whose tough black leather had been worn rugged by a thousand rides, whereas the clubby leather jacket I was sporting had barely a crease to show for its one-time trek halfway across the world from some Sri Lankan factory to my dorm room closet...
...skirt had 10 layers and I had to have someone help me put it on,” she recalls. “It was really heavy.” For her coronation as Fiesta Queen, Jauer donned the dress that two past queens had worn, an elaborate concoction of iridescent sequins, mirrors and a 20-foot train. It is now part of a museum exhibit in San Antonio...
...Mindful of the pillaging of Angkor Wat, the locals in and around this magical Cambodian mountain want to keep the hordes away. Some Siem Reap guesthouse managers warn that Phnom Kulen is riddled with land mines, even though the paths are well worn and thousands of Khmer visit every year without incident. Motorbike drivers, too, routinely discourage travelers by insisting it's too far, too expensive and there's not enough to do for the effort. They're partly right; it's too bum-numbingly far on a motorbike and, at about $150 for a day trip in a four...