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| Articles about Preston |
| Riptide by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child | | 2008-05-07 20:08:00 | | These two guys can make you sit on the edge of your chair while you read. They develop a story well, the characterizations are good and their plots are awesome. This book deals with a buried pirate treasure. Well, it may sound hokie, but trust me, it will grab you by the throat and drag you into a sleepless night trying to finish the book. Gotta love a good book.Body of work of Douglas PrestonBody of work of Lincoln ChildTheir web site: http://www.prestonchild.com/books/riptide/Review of Riptide: http://www.allreaders.com/Topics/Info_30839.asp
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| | Preston Parker Arrested | | 2008-04-22 13:49:00 | | Continuing the theme of this site, I am posting something anti-FSU. After this past season for Canes football, and for South Florida sports in general, I need the occasional laugh to keep me going. So tough luck, Noles fans.Anyway, Preston Parker got arrested for gun and drug charges today. The 21 year old receiver was one of those Bobby Bowden specials I often talk about here. He was all but a Cane but somehow out of the blue committed to FSU at the last second. He's been their best receiver recently, so this is going to hurt big time. Unless of course the Noles manage to sweep this under the rug and not punish him at all. I would hope they know to act quickly especially with the spotlight on them after the recent academic scandal.... | | By: State of Miami | | |
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| | The Great Moment. Preston Sturges. | | 2007-12-19 10:22:27 | |
There are a handful of “Sturges moments” in The Great Moment. I suppose I’d define those moments as the ones where the predictable or familiar filmic device transcends artifice (even if it’s as artificial as the text a character is reading appearing on the screen for the viewer to read as well) and becomes... ideal. Sturges’s understanding of how to make a comedic scene work is amazing. His pacing is perfect, the editing, everything. But The Great Moment isn’t a comedy. It’s the rather depressing story of the discoverer of anesthesia, played by Joel McCrea.
Sturges is visibly passionate about the story (the film’s thesis being the discoverer got a raw deal), but he allows that passion to blind him from his strengths. So, even while there are those good Sturges moments and the film’s generally well-written, there’s a lot of problems. First, Sturges frames it as a flashback with, presumably, bookends. But he quickly discards the framing. Second, the end... once it be... | | By: The Stop Button | | |
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