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By way of AICN , most of Team Sexy Beast (Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, the writers) conspire with the venerable John Hurt and most of Team John Adams (Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane) in the new trailer for Malcolm Venville's cockney crime story 44 Inch Chest , also with Joanne Whalley. With ...
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John Hurt
Gray. Ash gray. The sky was ash gray, and the air was heavy. Yes, the air tasted like rust and the tang of remorse. And the ground, it crunched like gravel under a boot, tho' all the boots were long gone -- they had marched on into that last blinding sunset, without remorse and without ...
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News you can use: How to unlock all the titles in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 . With my strict gaming regimen freed up until WoW's Cataclysm expansion comes out , MW:2 has been getting a lot of run lately in Casa Berk (as have Left 4 Dead 2 , NBA 2K10 , the GTA IV expansions , and ...
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Batman: Arkham Asylum
" Although this is not yet confirmed, FIFA is expected to use a tried and tested formula for its finals draw for South Africa 2010. The system couples FIFA rankings with performances in the past two finals tournaments to create a group of eight seeds that also includes the hosts. "
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" 'No man is an island,' said Nicholas A. Christakis, a professor of medicine and medical sociology at Harvard Medical School who helped conduct the research. 'Something so personal as a person's emotions can have a collective existence and affect the vast fabric of humanity.' " Forget H1N1: ...
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" 'We are still coming to terms with just how smooth the LHC commissioning is going,' said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer as the record was announced. 'It is fantastic.' " Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd , And now a bubble burst, and now a world...Also in science news, the now armed and ...
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Chipper, appealing, and more than a little twee, Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox is the second attempt this fall at retrofitting a beloved children's classic to incorporate the existential quandaries and resigned shrugging-through-life that so often beset emo hipsters. But, for a ...
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" Is it conceivable that Franklin D. Roosevelt's doctors knew he had widespread cancer in 1944 and still let him run for his fourth term as president? New research makes this astounding argument -- and claims that the physician who supposedly told the truth about Roosevelt's death in 1970 was ...
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" Obama needed to regain control quickly, and he started by jettisoning liberal positions he had been prepared to accept -- and had even okayed -- just weeks earlier. " TIME's Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf examine the recent ousting of Greg Craig , a slow death by leaking , as a ...
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Johnny Craig
" I will tell you the more I just stayed awake last night thinking about this thing, the more I think of it, I don't know what in the hell it looks to me like we're getting into another Korea [...] I don't think it's worth fighting for and I don't think we can get out. And it's just the biggest ...
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Barack Obama
" I was right in the middle of a f**king reptile zoo , and somebody was giving booze to these godd**n things !" For reasons that will be apparent if you see the movie, the memorable lizard sequence from both versions of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes to mind while watching Werner ...
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Via Quiddity , an enterprising photoshopper by the name of Spacesick has been creating vintage covers for a series of films-on-paper , I Can Read Movies. Definitely worth checking out.
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" If you're reading this article, it's likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. However, considering how much of an influence the Internet has in our daily lives, how many of us actually know the story of how it got its start? " From Al Gore to the Series of Tubes: By way of ...
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Al Gore
Casting continues to fill out for Kenneth Branagh's Thor : Apparently Idris Elba will play Heimdall (Asgard's bouncer, basically), and Stuart Townsend, Ray Stevenson, and Tadanobu Asano have signed up as Fandral, Volstagg, and Hogun respectively (Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg .) Stringer Bell and ...
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" Come the twilight of the year, the deathless 'Nutcracker' begins its march across American stages, bearing tidings of comfort and joy. Oh, goody. Yet to those of us who despair of its pervading tweeness and wish ballet had something better to do at this time of year than endlessly reminisce ...
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" For some cold-ass crook gangstaz, y'all carried it like Republicans and s**t. " Haven't watched this yet, as volume is a consideration at work (and sad to read in the comments that the Slim Charles classic, " If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie ," didn't make the cut.) Nonetheless, by ...
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" Van Toffler, the president of MTV Networks, said on Monday, 'Ken was a great guy. His personality really brought " Remote Control " to life, as well as a new style of programming for MTV. We were really flying by the seat of of our pants then, and Ken was the reason it worked.' " R.I.P. Ken ...
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As you no doubt expected, Roland Emmerich's bloated disaster flick 2012 is a colossal, gimongous, world-sized ball of stupid. I guess I sort of admired its "disaster movie to end all disaster movie" gumption at first. That being said, the film is predicated on an erroneous and ultimately ...
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" That integrity shone through in the roles he played. I can't ever remember, in all the productions he undertook, anyone having a bad word to say about him and he never had anything bad to say about anyone else either. " Sgt. Howie (and TV's The Equalizer ) finally had his appointment with the ...
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Way back in the last millennium, when I started GitM , things were different. America had never had a black president . We had no clue that there was water on the moon . Everybody agreed, and knew in their bones, that torture was immoral . The Knicks were actually considered a pretty good ...
