The Last Word

March 24, 2017

... song of this movie, “Be Our Guest.” The biggest fear I had going into the movie was that they would turn the scene into a CGI nightmare, but I was nevertheless amazed by how magical it turned out. It had to be one of my favorite musical numbers in the film. But during the song “Beauty and the Beast,” I found myself patiently waiting for Chip the Teacup (Nathan Mack) to sing his line at the end, but it never came. That spoiled the song for me. I was also disappointed with the fact that Belle’s father was instead portrayed as an artist rather than the whimsical inventor we all know and love him to be. But what surprised me the most was my newfound love for Le Fou (Josh Gad) even more than I imagined. I found him to be more driven, and I was ultimately surprised to see him as a guide to Gaston (Luke Evans). All in all, the rendition of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” was exceptional. Thank you, Disney, for inviting me to be your guest for one phenomenal ...

Bob Knight Wants The Last Word On Everything. Why Do We Bother Listening

... Knight speaks fairly often at sites around Indiana — but never at IU. This speech was delivered at The Barrington of Carmel, a retirement community, in 2015. (Photo: Kelly Wilkinson/The Star)Buy Photo. 1117 CONNECT TWEET 7 LINKEDIN 17 COMMENTEMAILMORE. Twelve days ago, shortly after his team had pulled out a draining and dramatic overtime win over Penn in the semifinals of the inaugural Ivy League basketball tournament, Princeton Coach Mitch Henderson walked into the back of the interview room. He was standing in a corner, waiting to be called to the podium, when he caught my eye. I waved and mouthed, "Congratulations." He nodded, then urgently waved me over. I couldn't imagine what he wanted to tell me, but thought he might want to share something that would help my column. I walked over and we shook hands. "So what's the deal with your guy Knight?" he asked. A little more than 24 hours earlier, Bob Knight had told Dan Patrick during a radio interview that he wished all the people who had been in charge at Indiana when he was fired had died or would die soon. I had been asked the same question countless times already and ...

Rethinking Africa’s Development

... by 1000 AD that Europe could only envy. Introduce capitalist dynamics in these societies with their history of nationhood and statehood, their accumulated technical skills and institutional competences and you would need a short time to transform. Tags Africa's development Andrew Mwenda FDI Uganda. Yes you are excusing the sorrow state of leadership in Africa. They play the most important role in setting the agenda and shaping the future of these young countries. That is the very definition of leadership. Look at South Sudan, do you really think it is a lack of a business class that is responsible for the barbarity that is unfolding now? Hardly. Even a relatively developed (in terms of your business class hypothesis) South Africa has quickly descended into the barbarity of killing African immigrants in their midst, at the prompting if not acquiescence and prompting of the ...

Trainspotting,' 'the Last Word,' 'wilson

... link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Join the Conversation. To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs. New movies: 'Life,' 'Power Rangers,' 'CHi Ps,' 'T 2: Trainspotting,' 'The Last Word,' 'Wilson'. Chris Foran , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2:53 p.m. CT March 23, 2017. Ryan Reynolds (left) and Jake Gyllenhaal find life in outer space, and it turns out to be a problem, in "Life.". (Photo: Columbia Pictures-Sony). Be careful what you look for; you just might find it. In the sci-fi action movie "Life," "it" is life. When a space station crew finds a living organism on Mars and brings it on board, they discover that it's what turned Mars into a dead planet — and will do the same to Earth if it gets there. The crew includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson. So far, the reviews are mostly positive. Peter Debruge, Variety's chief film critic, called “Life” "a thrill when it’s smart, but it’s even more exciting when the characters are dumb.". "Life" is rated R for pervasive language and some violence. It runs for 103 ...

Gooey 'the Last Word' Wastes 83-year-old Shirley Maclaine

... she finds nobody else really liked her either. Outraged, Harriet decides she’ll use what’s left of her life to reshape it to look better in print. She fulfills her lifelong dream of becoming a disk jockey by applying at the local WORT-FM-style indie radio station. She starts mentoring a young African-American girl (Ann Jewel Lee Dixon). And, as we expected all along, she starts trying to break the timid Anne out of her shell, pushing her to work on that notebook full of essays that she’s afraid to let anybody read. There’s potentially great satire here in the way Harriet initially manufactures altruism and warmth in order to look better for posterity. But screenwriter Stuart Ross Fink and director Mark Pellington can’t let that stand, instead turning Harriet’s artifice into the real thing midway through. It turns out Harriet was secretly a great person, and secretly everybody did like her! It’s hard to know what to do with a film that betrays its characters and their motivations so blithely. Don't miss a thing. Get a Cap Times daily summary sent to your inbox. Sign Up. ...

Lawrence O’donnell Calls Trump ‘laziest, Most Ignorant President

... ignorant, but he has a really good marketing sense. He knows that this is not really what he ran for president on. He talked about it because Republicans have to talk about it, but he ran about trade and crime and immigration and making America great again. In addition, Trump “was saying that he’d give insurance for everyone,” Barro stated. “He understood that this is not something Americans wanted, and I think that was against his better judgment to listen to (House Speaker) Paul Ryan about doing this first. He should have started with a tax cut.”. In an article posted on the Free Beacon website by Chandler Gill, the media analyst noted that the president “reportedly told congressional Republicans on Thursday that he was done negotiating on the American Health Care Act.”. Gill noted that Trump “apparently told GOP lawmakers” that they needed to vote on the ...

The Last Word On The Spur Incident

... few more unpleasantries were exchanged as he departed, he returned to her table, pushing through a few people who were attempting to hold him back, and then picked up the edge of her table and rammed it towards her and her children. Spur later released the CCTV footage of the event , and although there was no sound, another crucial aspect of the encounter emerged. The man had reached across the table and took the woman’s child by the arm and attempted to drag him away from his mother. She grabbed her child’s other arm and pulled him back towards her. Apparently, this took place before the other diner took out their phone and started recording, so it puts her anger a little more clearly into perspective. So now, to the eyewitness apologist and all the other people who have been saying that Lebogang Mabuya was “unladylike” and that she “shouldn’t have sworn at him” or that they are “both to blame” for ...

Unfavorable 'terms

... colleagues, no un-estranged family – and Anne is no Hercules. She’s a writer with ambition but no courage, stuck at a dead-end print job and now saddled with the most unpleasant assignment of her career. From such apparent mismatches are buddy movies made, and The Last Word hews to genre norms, helped by appealing leads and an unusual (if not entirely laudable) feat of screenwriting candor. Harriet scripts her own obituary and decides it will be better if she is known to have provided volunteer assistance to a “minority or cripple” – and cynically sets about doing just that. Thus, the movie takes its own shamelessness (Ann Jewell Lee Dixon joins the gang as a precocious mascot) and incorporates it into the plot, wearing it almost like insulation. Fake friendship, of course, turns into real feeling. Other calculated Harriet initiatives also become sincere, and the parallel personal circumstances of the lead characters (family estrangement) converge amid jaunty road trips and several stand-up-and-cheer moments. Mac Laine gets two standing ovations. It's a problem. The Last Word is a love letter to the actress, but respect would have helped the movie more. She doesn’t need the ...