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...short years ago - let's call them the Little Miss Sunshine years - things were looking up in the world of independent films. New titles debuted at Sundance and walked away with multimillion dollar theatrical deals. But as the number of films flooding the art house circuit spiked, audiences have sagged and theaters themselves have become more scarce. Declining box office receipts have resulted in a subdued festival marketplace, where lucrative acquisitions seem to be a thing of the past. For every art-house blockbuster like Juno (which took in $229 million globally) or big-ticket festival purchase like Hamlet...
What was your reaction when you saw people lining up outside IndyMac branches after you took over that bank in July? IndyMac was a real wake-up call for us. It saddened me. People were waiting hours and hours in line, and they didn't need to. They could write checks, use their ATM cards. We have done a lot of public education since then, and we have Suze Orman who has done some PSAs for us. I think we've got people calmed down...
...Time Out of Mind” and 2001’s “‘Love and Theft.’” Now, Columbia Records issues the eighth installment of Dylan’s strikingly consistent “Bootleg Series,” called “Tell Tale Signs,” seemingly as a triumphal arch erected in honor of a last fruitful, if wearying, campaign. At two discs and over two hours (the deluxe edition features a third disc and a 150-page booklet to boot), “Tell Tale Signs?...
...Minnesota State Fair, Friedman’s readership should be forewarned that his latest book is not hot (in the Paris Hilton sense of the word), that it’s uneven, and that it’s empty. Friedman’s argument is ice cold because his call-to-arms is rather unoriginal, as is the way he argues it. His thesis is something we’ve heard many times before: “everybody, in time, is going to be forced to pay the true cost of the energy they are using, the true cost...
...other day I got a call from a friend in Europe. He was both frantic and furious. He had just been turned back at New York's JFK airport and sent home on the first flight. He missed his son's wedding - the son is an American citizen. The FBI at JFK was courteous but would only tell him he was on a terrorist list. Nothing the man could say helped. Was he on Maryland's list, now an undesirable alien and permanently excluded from the United States? Probably not, but in this era of secret evidence, who knows...