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...bands have managed to storm the independent music world as quickly as Broken Social Scene. The Toronto-based collective had at least ten regular members at the last count, when they rose from the forests of Canada to total relevance. They broke onto the scene with their enormously popular and critically acclaimed 2002 album You Forgot It In People, an album that was hyped to such an extent (notably by rising hipster gatekeeper website Pitchforkmedia.com) that it couldn’t help but fail to live up to expectations...
...course they don’t, because those players—along with several others—comprise the dark underbelly of the “High School-to-NBA” fad that has been gaining momentum over the past ten years...
...couldn’t bring myself to see any of this crap crop last summer—after wasting ten bucks on The Matrix Reloaded, I confined my summer movie-watching to what I could get from Netflix and the local library; I got up to speed on Cronenberg and Polanski and saw a bunch of other classics that I hadn’t caught yet. The only ticket I bought for the rest of the summer was to see 28 Days Later (which I enjoyed a lot—I’m a sucker for evocative apocalypse movies...
...affairs? Well, studios can start by moving away from its reliance on test audiences. Producers remain convinced that test screenings are the best way to gauge a film’s potential success and target audience. This is largely ineffective. Paramount Pictures must somehow have found the only ten people on the planet likely to enjoy Twisted, branded them a focus group and gave the movie a green light. The movie failed to recoup even half its budget. Most of the movies in this week’s top ten will fail to make their studios a profit until every...
...must publicly acknowledge and condemn the atrocities. Bush broached the issue during a phone conversation with the Sudanese President two weeks ago, but a forceful public denunciation would mean more. Intense international pressure may yet persuade the Sudanese government to call off its deadly campaign. Regardless, Power asserts that ten thousand peacekeepers are needed in Darfur to secure the situation. Khartoum would first have to agree to such a mission, a concession that would require additional U.S. leverage. For example, we could threaten to extend sanctions that we are already imposing on Sudan as punishment for their terrorist connections...