2008 Woodie Awards
Friday was the most expensive day of Britney Spears' life. In the work of an evening, the young woman who was once the world's biggest pop star may have sabotaged her image, her income and her personal life in a breakdown that could cost her a fortune. "Without question, parents are going to have a hard time allowing their kids to buy anything associated with Britney," says Doug Akin, a partner with Mr.
The ads would have you believe "Babel" is a two-hour Brad Pitt vehicle that showcases him at the top of his acting game. But while the second part of that pitch can certainly be argued, Pitt is merely one leg of a 142-minute monster that uses a single, terrible mistake to set in motion four connected but mostly self-contained stories from vastly different corners of the world.
All right, all right...it is the worst crime in all of cinema. Worse than Alfred Hitchcock never handling directorial Oscar gold. More appalling than Stanley Kubrick's 1 for 13 Academy batting average (he received one for "2001's" special eff ects???). Over the course of his highly praised career, Martin Scorsese, a true American auteur, has never won the big prize.
In the heart of Orlando, nestled on the far side of the tracks on Church Street, lies Absinthe Bistro and Bar, recognizable only by the red neon sign on the patio's overhang. It is 11:30, and the muffled thump of the bass pours from the open side door. On the patio, posh patrons smoke clove cigarettes in the brisk night air.
The title "Breach" comes from a clip of a Feb. 19, 2001, news conference statement by John Ashcroft that opens the film. In describing the arrest the day before of veteran FBI agent Robert Hanssen for spying, the then attorney general says "a very serious breach in the security of the United States.
As I pulled into the Amway Arena parking lot at 5pm on February 8th blaring "It's 5 o'clock Somewhere" it was obvious that I was a little late to the tailgating party. Parrotheads from all over Florida and all over the East coast were decked out in their grass skirts and coconut bras singing "Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville.
"Hacking on computers disassembling stuff Paid off in the end, now who got it rough The beauty of the baud and the world of the switch Make a new generation of us geekstas" -ytcracker, "Meganerd Baby" WACO, Texas _ A cramped upstairs bedroom in an apartment complex with all the whimsical charm of a Soviet prison block doesn't seem like the kind of place where a new branch of hip-hop would take root.