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...film, after all, is seen through the eyes of Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a quiet small-town barber who manages to remain taciturn even as the film’s narrator. Instead of talking, he observes and listens. In this way, he learns that his wife, Doris (Frances McDormand) is having an affair with her boss, Big Dave (James Gandolfini). And by listening to an entrepreneur (Jon Polito) seeking funding for a dry cleaning venture, Ed decides to break out of his hair-cutting rut and put up the money...
...took Bob Putnam’s course, where the participants were across the board, including a lot from the Kennedy School, and it was one of the most stimulating courses I’ve ever taken,” he says. “It wasn’t as keenly focused on academic issues, but it was really fascinating...
Affectlessness is not a quality much prized in movie protagonists, but Billy Bob Thornton, that splendid actor, does it perfectly as Ed Crane, a taciturn small-town barber, circa 1949. Everyone cheats on him--his wife, his business partner, his teen lover, his hotshot lawyer. By the movie's end, he is facing his final comeuppance, deadpan sangfroid still miraculously intact. The ever astonishing Coen brothers say their film was inspired by the spirit of James M. Cain's novels about ill-fated dopes. But the Coens transcend Cain. If this were not such great American-vernacular moviemaking--hilarious...
Consider that China is Kodak's second largest market for film and will probably be No. 1 within a year or two, says Bob Theleen, whose San Francisco-based venture-capital firm, ChinaVest, has been doing business in China for 20 years. The big story now, Theleen says, is the emerging domestic service economy that will set China apart from other Asian economies. Manufacturing, mainly for export, is well developed throughout Asia. Theleen is focusing his China investment on areas like entertainment and fast food...
...Singer's hip surgery causes KISS to cancel WTC benefit, proving that 24-in. platform boots are not a good, long-term, orthopedic solution CHRISTIE'S Auction house cheats itself by selling million-dollar violin for $48,000. Ups opening bid for Golden Girls collectible plates to $2 million BOB DYLAN Legend denied backstage entry to own show as guards don't recognize him. Finally got in by claiming to be Mick Jagger's mother...