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...these actors, being a kid is a full-time job, with scripts to memorize, tutoring to endure--and all that fan mail. Can they also be ordinary youngsters? Or do they just play them on TV? Duff and Bynes seem to pull it off: nice girls with a grownup sense of proportion. "I pride myself on not being Hollywood," Bynes says. "I could go to the parties and stuff, but for me it's so fake. I know my whole career is based on being perky, but I'm more laid back than people would assume." Duff, when asked about...
...success of Better Luck Tomorrow. After the movie is “platform” released today—it opens in Boston on April 18—it will test-run in a limited number of theaters to gauge the amount of audience response before distributors decide to pull it from theaters or to expand its run. Studios, after all, are only concerned with how much a film makes, and Lin isn’t afraid to acknowledge this reality...
...next shot, ten minutes later, the Marine hit the building, yet as I wallowed in my late night stupor I couldn’t help questioning whether this had been worth three hours of my TV time. But worth it or not, I couldn’t pull myself away...
...times catchers pick it up—Mike seems to pick up right away with the guy’s swing, ‘Hey I can bust him inside,’ or ‘he’s looking to pull, we’ll go away on him for a while.’ Very smart guy on the mound...
Furthermore, making a snap judgment to pull funding from defense companies opens the floodgates for divestment from other morally ambiguous industries. Coca-Cola and Nike are only a few examples; given adamant students and faculty, an argument could be made that nearly every company is socially irresponsible, that each is giving rise to societal ills in some manner or another. And on each example, there would likely not be a clear moral consensus...