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...price tag, a studio boss gets to hope out loud. "I'd like it to be, at a minimum, the most successful non-Disney animated film," says Fox filmed-entertainment chief Bill Mechanic, probably alluding to the $90 million earned at the box office by Warner's 1996 Space Jam. "But I really hope it will compete with the best Disney pictures." Best as in biggest: The Lion King's $313 million...
Perhaps more to the point, you might try sitting down with you roommates and a couple of used newspapers or CVS plastic bags and seeing if you can figure out how to jam with them...
Here for First-year Parents weekend, one mother strove to visit her son in Thayer Hall last Saturday. But, in a Yard jam-packed with throngs of political activists, tourists, trick-or-treaters and those seeking refuge from the rain, it was not quite that simple for her to get to her son, Christian P. Quilici...
...were [at the front]...and we were standing jam-packed, touching other women, we had no idea who they were, but they felt like aunties and cousins; these were my kin.... [While we sang the official Million Woman March song], we held hands.... And the feeling of...an intense togetherness, of a shared experience even though we all came from different walks of life just went through every single person; joined by our hands, it just ran through us like a current. And, when I left that place, I felt, that I am not alone...
...underdog who knows the forces arrayed against him have only enhanced his populist appeal. Sitting down at Pick-a-Deli, a greasy spoon adjacent to the produce warehouse, Hoffa orders his usual: scrambled eggs ("Gimme lots of catsup for my eggs"), orange juice and wheat toast with grape jam. He's annoyed by comparisons with his father ("I have the name, but I'm also someone in my own right"), yet he recalls the patriarch vividly and talks about him at length. "It was draining to go see him" in jail, Hoffa says. "He was like a caged animal...