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December 2006 Disasters
Dec. 14–15, Northwest U.S.: heavy rains and winds knocked out power to 1.5 million residents in Washington and Oregon and caused 14 deaths, many due to carbon monoxide poisonings from people…2006 Nobel Prize Winners
Peace: Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh for “their efforts to create economic and social development from below”Literature: Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) “who in the…Hustler White
Directors/Writers:Bruce LaBruce and Rick CastroDirector of Photography:James CarmanEditor:Rider SiphronProducers:Jurgen Bruning and Bruce LaBruceStrand Releasing; NR; 82 minutesRelease:9/…Beefcake
Director/Writer:Thom FitzgeraldStrand Films; unrated; 93 minutesRelease:10/99Cast:Daviel MacIvor, Josh Peace, Carroll Godsman Beefcake is writer-director Thom Fitzgerald's semi-fictional peek…Show Me Love
Director/Writer:Lukas MoodyssonStrand Releasing; 89 minutes; NRRelease:10/99Cast:Alexandra Dahlstrom, Mathias Rust, Rebecca LiljebergIn Swedish with English subtitles From the land of IKEA…Pitch Black
Director:David TwohyWriters:Jim and Ken Wheat and David TwohyUSA Films; R; 107 minutesRelease:2/00Cast:Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser Pitch Black probably deserves a B+. It's a sci-…Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: A Ship and a Man
148 150 A Ship and a Man SEEING a ship sailing by upon the sea of politics, an Ambitious Person started in hot pursuit along the strand; but the people's eyes being fixed upon the Presidency no…Held Up
Director:Stephen RashWriter:Jeff EastinTrimark Pictures; PG-13; 91 minutesRelease:5/00Cast:Jamie Foxx, Nia Long, Sam Gifaldi Held Up is a directionless comedy about a black newlywed (Jamie…A. E. Housman: Reveille
ReveilleWake: the silver dusk returning Up the beach of darkness brims, And the ship of sunrise burning Strands upon the eastern rims.Wake: the vaulted shadow shatters, Trampled to the…The Devil's Dictionary: Folly
by Ambrose Bierce FLY-SPECKFOOLFOLLY -n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. Folly!…