Word: writeres
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...financial meltdown in Capitalism: A Love Story. Provocative and wildly ambitious, it expands beyond the housing and banking crises of the past year into an epic of malfeasance: capital crimes on a national scale. With enough corporate villains to stock a hundred melodramas, who is the hero? The writer-director-star himself. There he is, attempting to make a citizen's arrest of AIG executives and parking an armored truck in front of one bank to reclaim the billions it received in government largesse. Of course the film is one-?sided; that's the nature of a political tract...
Burns and writer Dayton Duncan make plain which side they're on. (The subtitle is a hint.) A section on the battle to create a park in the Smoky Mountains contrasts schoolkids collecting pennies for the effort with logging companies bankrolling ads and "frantically cutting the old-growth forests ... to extract everything they could before the land was closed to them." Speaking to critics this summer, Burns said, "If there were no national parks, [the Grand Canyon] would be a gated community...
That's partly because, unlike most young actors whose parents drive their early choices, Harris found Doogie himself. He went to acting camp in his home state of New Mexico, where the writer Mark Medoff, who was an instructor at the camp, cast Harris in his 1988 movie, Clara's Heart. His parents moved with him to L.A. during Doogie's four-year run, and after it ended in 1993, Harris kept working in TV, film and theater, acquiring exactly the skills you'd need to go into show business in 1890: magic, acrobatics, singing and dancing. Because his fame...
...though, no matter how historically accurate vampire depiction is or isn’t, I still think pop culture is in need of a silver bullet. I mean more unbridled, non-vampiric sex and violence. I mean a stake in the shape of a cross.—Staff writer Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...It’s important that the administration works to implement...provisions of really allowing students and student-faculty [committees] to be decision-making bodies,” said former representative Eric L. Michel ‘12, who is also a Crimson’s sports writer.“The UC restructures itself every four years because its not really getting at the heart of the issue, which is the student-faculty committees. Their jurisdiction has been circumvented...by an explosion of deans,” said former UC Treasurer Anthony R. Britt...