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...strategy here is: more is more; success by any medium necessary. For Scholastic those ancillary products aren't just additional sources of revenue - though they're sure as shootin' that too - they enhance the overall entertainment experience. "That was really the genesis of this," Riordan says. "How can we make an experience that's not simply the book, that's all these other elements as well, that get the reader involved in a number of different ways - that really get kids where they live? What are they interested in, and how can we get them hooked into this series?" After...
...girlfriend back home and is promptly killed. That information also gives Swagger a rare ally (pretty, stalwart Kate Mara, who played Heath Ledger's daughter in Brokeback Mountain) once he's on the run from Washington, D.C., to Tennessee, which he calls "the patron state of shootin' stuff." (The always authoritative Levon Helm has an excellent cameo here as a Yoda of gun lore.) His other helper is a rookie FBI agent (World Trade Center's Michael Pena), who does a lot of Internet research before he joins Swagger and gets to blow up some traitors...
Mystic River's story is told in Eastwood's straight-shootin' fashion, while 21 Grams, written by Guillermo Arriaga, jumps like an antsy first-grader from one plot strand to the next. Neither film, despite what you might have heard, is within shouting distance of a masterpiece. Gonzalez Inarritu's English-language debut lacks the zigzagging drive of his Mexican hit Amores Perros and taxes credulity with its pileup of fatal coincidences. Mystic River has a case of wandering accents (sometimes South Boston, sometimes West Hollywood) and plods toward its conclusion more like a tired cop than a cunning detective...
...ride camels as well as horses. Our outlaw hero has a familiar cohort of misfits: sassy kid, young woman, saintly monk and an old man with one last battle in him. I don't know if you can drawl in Mandarin, but Jiang Wen is sure-as-shootin' John Wayne, the gruff leader who tells his supporting-actor pals, "I don't want to turn your wives into widows," and rides off alone. (Of course they follow...
...fabulous buying opportunity. But what made that Friday a death trap, the worst of all possible times to buy? Let's review that moment, because the question of buying or selling the next big dip, rather than the question of whether there could be another crash (answer: sure as shootin') can make us a big pile of money the next time around...