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Before the online discussion on Business Week’s forum was deleted, other students reported that they had also accessed admissions decisions from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business...
...lead the world, or wait for the oil to run out and watch other countries take advantage. Bill Zawacki Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. Fantasy and Reality I was taken aback by Richard Schickel's rather brusque film review of King Arthur [July 26]. Schickel seems to think that director Antoine Fuqua's vision, with its emphasis on realism, is the film's downfall. Instead, Schickel believes that "what these movies really need are cheeky athletes as their heroes" and in addition, "flash, sass and genial trash." It is quite disconcerting when a film reviewer says villains should spew sardonic menace...
...title card says this King Arthur, grimly directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), is based on the latest research into the mythic past. Maybe so. But one can't help thinking the research that really counted was that into the more recent box-office charts. Hmm, look at those grosses for The Lord of the Rings. Must be some other old stuff we could turn into some sort of spectacle. So clang, clang, clang go the broadswords, swish, swish, swish go the flights of arrows, and twitch, twitch, twitch go our bottoms in the seats. There's too much realism...
...will do fine if she has even half the impact on U.S. filmgoers that she did on the men in the Tears crew. "They were going crazy for her," director Antoine Fuqua says with a laugh. "I had guys coming in--just nutty. Their hormones were going nuts. What are you going to do? I had to keep them focused. Hey, I had to look through that lens every day myself. Sometimes I'd just look...
...Better Blues." Lee provided Washington with another plum role when he cast him as the lead in "Malcolm X." Another one of Washington's best roles came in "Mississippi Masala," a movie directed by an Indian director, Mira Nair. "Training Day" was directed by a black filmmaker, Antoine Fuqua...