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Invictus was one of several new pictures whose year-end releases were keyed to wowing critics and influencing Academy voters. The Lovely Bones, in which director Peter Jackson returned to ordinary-size pictures after The Lord of the Rings and King Kong, opened in three theaters and amassed $116,000. Touted as an awards contender before anyone had seen it, The Lovely Bones has received reviews in the mixed-to-negative range - just a 40% approval score on the Rotten Tomato-meter poll of critics. (The totals for other December hopefuls: The Princess and the Frog, 83%; Invictus...
More modest aspirations attend the indie drama A Single Man, about a teacher grieving for his dead lover. Director Tom Ford and the Weinstein Company would be pleased with respectable grosses and an Oscar for its leading man, Colin Firth, who was named best actor at this year's Venice Film Festival. The $216,000 A Single Man earned at nine venues is a good start toward the first goal; but, at least in the early critics votes, Firth keeps getting edged out for Best Actor by another sensitive hunk: George Clooney...
...neighborhood concerns." Huizar's constituents have complained about decreased quality of life and increased crime in the areas around the dispensaries. "Within a 2½-mile radius and for a population of 40,000 people, we have 13 dispensaries operating, which is just ridiculous," says Michael Larsen, public-safety director of the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council, which is part of Huizar's district. "It's literally the wild, wild West." (See pictures of America's cannabis culture...
...Indian politics. Experts worry that new states may simply mean more jockeying for power and expanded bureaucracy in a country already notorious for its spools of red tape as well as its perpetual political horse-trading. "Ultimately, fragmentation is not a substitute for good governance," says C.V. Madhukar, director of PRS Legislative Research, a Delhi nonprofit which advises the government...
...founders’ close friendship and dedication to their project is evident from their enthusiasm. Bick describes Winston as a director who leads by example. “At every point, Winston’s always trying to come up with a bigger and grander vision,” he says...