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...seek town approval before embarking on the construction, because the current zoning agreement between the town and university sets a cap on the number of square feet that Carolina can build. The most vocal opponents to Carolina’s expansion are residents of neighborhoods adjacent to the campus, which would lose the undeveloped buffer that now separates them from the school. Other residents merely object on the basis of the impact the plans would have on the town’s traffic patterns or environment. They don’t want the development to destroy the small-town nature...
...This one is very close to me," says JIM CARREY of The Majestic, the film he's making about a blacklisted writer who gets in a car accident, loses his memory and becomes a small-town hero. "I'm growing up, and there's a lot of me I haven't shown yet to people. In a way, this is the first time I'll ever reveal the wounds...Acting is always about finding out what your character wants, and this character, not unlike myself, is dying for self-respect. I grew up wanting to be this special miracle...
...Grand Guy" makes it clear that Southern's finest creation was himself. The small-town Texan essentially reinvented himself after serving in WWII (he took part in the Battle of the Bulge), and taking advantage of the G.I. Bill to study at the Sorbonne. He eliminated his twang in favor of a precise, nearly British cadence, his Lone Star patois giving way to a flash, mockingly hip mixture of jazz lingo, eccentric abbreviations of names (as in "Sam" Beckett and "tip-top Tenn" Williams), the errant French phrase, and the occasional dip backward into down-home aphorisms...
...imagined I had looked inside his fortress for an instant. I decided the Hermit was a sly old dog, and I was touched. Then I accused myself of having a small-town busybody's mind that makes up cheap unfounded stories that cause trouble...
...mixed self-deprecating jokes about coming from small-town Minnesota with quips about the problems with “excellent people,” who he suggested often lack a sense of humor and are surrounded by envy...