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...moved to New York City and started hearing it one day,” Furst says.Even for those who had focused on music during college, most had other plans. Cruz had a job lined up in Latin America after college and always thought he would do something with Latin American politics. Instead, he showed up in New York with his guitar and little else planned.Though Harvard’s resources could let them make music, there was no guidance in how to turn it into a career. “Were there a lot of resources...
...these first lines do more to circumscribe the western genre than they do the boxing genre. Almost instantly, Gardener crystallizes the already-swelling malaise taking hold of the national consciousness in the decline of the 60s counterculture, mediated through the lens of its physical analogy: the American Frontier. It’s at this very moment, in 1969, when America is faced with the choice of acknowledging its limits, be they the shores of the Pacific, the streets of Chicago or the defoliated landscape of Vietnam. But Bill Tully, like so many others, is unwilling to look.Only the most gifted...
...summer filled with justifiable acclaim for “Inglourious Basterds,” another war movie snuck onto the scene and captured audiences with an almost surreal attention to detail rather than with a clever rewrite of history. Written by American journalist Mark Boal, the script for “The Hurt Locker” is based on stories from his time covering a bomb squad in Iraq. Jeremy Renner (“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “28 Weeks Later”) leads the film?...
...herself dissatisfied with mundane voiceover work, Berg created her own radio show, “The Rise of the Goldbergs” (later shortened to “The Goldbergs”). Centered on the life of a lower East Side Jewish family of immigrant parents and first-generation American children, the show was a national hit. Berg played the doting mother, Molly Goldberg, while also producing and writing every script for the show that ran Monday through Friday from 1929-1945. The radio program later spawned a television show of the same name, which won Berg the first-ever...
Proving a negative is always a challenge, but there's mounting evidence that the controversial $787 billion stimulus bill is achieving one of its major goals: shortening the recession. Economists at Goldman Sachs say the bill, officially called the American Recovery and Reconstruction Act, has resulted in a 2% to 3% boost to annual GDP in the second and third quarters of this year, turning what could have been a worsening recession into potential growth. For President Barack Obama, whose poll numbers have dropped precipitously from around 65% to around 50% as Americans have become worried about government spending...