Word: picked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...took him an awfully long time to choose The Beach, the first movie he decided to do since Titanic was released. After starring in the biggest movie in history, DiCaprio had his pick of scripts. He read more than 100 and optioned six, but couldn't decide which one to do. "I could tell after reading the script with him that he'd do it, but it took more than a month for a definite yes," says Beach director Danny Boyle. "He does kind of hem and haw." Once he started making the film, DiCaprio spent hours reshooting scenes...
...lesson is that we've gone about the project of creating an American elite in the wrong order. The first step should be to generate a real national agreement about what form we want the country to take. After we've settled that, we should pick an elite that has the inclination and the ability to do what we want done. Generate an elite first--without a definite project for it to accomplish--and you will wind up with a class of leaders without followers...
...predict three possible scenarios, starting with the Big Divorce. Somewhere around 2025, people will pick a gender equivalent of the Mason-Dixon Line and sort themselves out accordingly. In Guy Land the men will be free to spend their evenings staging belching contests and watching old Howard Stern tapes. In Gal Land the women will all be fat and happy, and no one will bother to shave her legs. Aside from a few initial border clashes, the separation will for the most part be amicable. At least the "battle of the sexes," insofar as anyone can remember it, will...
...than judgment. On the other hand, keeping the house lights down the entire time can create a troubling dichotomy between the world of theater and the external world. It's easy enough to check our judgments at the theater door along with our coats if we know we can pick them up again on the way outside...
...Hello?…Yeah, I'm just heading out of Sever…I don't know, I fell asleep half-way through the lecture…The Bow?…I guess so…Look, I just have to pick up my laundry and then I'll be home…Okay, see you then...