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...title characters in “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” who spend a life-changing night on a sleepless quest to hear their favorite underground band.In discussing the choices they’ve made in their careers and their recent glimpses of fame, both actors come across as modest and reserved. Though Dennings was much more talkative than her costar, who gave little more than one-line answers. It’s easy to assume that Cera and his characters are one and the same—and he didn?...
...particular the fictional group Where’s Fluffy. But for all its pretensions to understanding indie music fans, the movie comes across as contrived and unemotional. Nick, played by Michael Cera of “Juno” and “Superbad” fame, is devastated after his girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena) breaks up with him. Being the generic emo-punk that he is, he makes her dozens of mix CDs with heart-rending titles such as—in one of the film’s best and most subtle jokes?...
...There’s not even infamy or fame associated with [the Facebook group],” Martinez said. “It’s just that people tend to know who I am.” He said that the first thing one Kenyan freshman did when he arrived in the United States was to call Luis, whose Facebook profile lists his cell phone number, for lessons on American culture...
...Martinez said he doesn’t think his Facebook fame will influence the UC election. “I don’t think Facebook has really changed anything. Sure, I have a Facebook profile, but so does everyone else,” he said. “Name recognition allows my campaign to be more relaxed. I don’t feel I have to introduce myself to the public...
...paper, at the center of a "you must take sides" conflict between labor and capitalism (the broadsheet's owner, publisher and editor, Harrison Gray Otis, detested the former) quickly blamed union terrorists. Interweaving the tales of Billy Burns, a private detective known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," famed attorney Clarence Darrow, of Scopes Monkey Trial fame, and filmmaker D.W. Griffith, director of Birth of a Nation, Blum attempts to weave an early twentieth century murder mystery...