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...bullhorn in the other, Gibson put on his best bug-eyed Lethal Weapon face and pleaded with them to "show more fear, more trepidation! It?s like Mars! It?s hell on Earth!" When most of them gave him blank stares, Gibson sheepishly turned to the crew. "Traduccion, por favor" ? translation, please...
...There are three other theories, unique to this year, and all favor Crash. One is that Brokeback, the front-runner after its critics? nods in December and its Golden Globe award in January, made the fatal faux pas of peaked too soon. Whereas Crash, which has lately been getting the majority of Hollywood?s favorite four-letter word, buzz, peaked at just the right time...
...bomber, and the first film to be nominated from Palestine, was an early favorite - before Hamas won the election. That reduces the chance you?ll be hearing this: "And the winner is? from the Terrorist?I mean Palestinian Authority?" So now the race is wide open. Las Vegas bettors favor Tsotsi, a South African fable (by Nobel laureate Athol Fugard) about a vicious thug who adopts an adorable infant. Two fact-based films have good intentions: Joyeux Noel, about the three-nation battlefield truce in World War I, and Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, a German film about the World...
...course, Tony is not so flush that he can't walk into an eyeglass store owned by a civilian connected to his business, impose on him for a huge favor, then pick out a pair of Armani shades and say, "You know what? I left my wallet in the car." For Tony, the money is not the point. The point is not having...
...more relevant. “A lot of the examples were really recent and were really up to date and I could identify with what they were talking about, like MTV and the rise of hip hop,” he says. THE NIGHT OF SELF-DOUBTEven those in favor of teaching pop culture, however, see the potential for falling into some dangerous traps.The aspect of “cool” that attaches itself to the study of mass culture can be worrisome to those who teach it. “There is a high status thing in enjoying...