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2013年1月12日 星期六
//'GANGSTER SQUAD' REVIEW: SOULLESS MOBSTER MASH MISSES THE MARK//
January slouches on with the release of "Gangster Squad," a bloody revision of the old Warner Bros. crime films of the 1930s. The story begins in 1949 in Los Angeles, a city thick with vice and corruption, where snarling mob boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) is determined to take over the town. Cohen owns any number of cops and judges, and his dope and prostitution rackets are thus untouchable. This doesn’t sit well with one straight-arrow sergeant, John O’Mara (Josh Brolin), a square-jawed war vet with an inflamed sense of justice and a respect for due process that’s barely vestigial. These qualities appeal to new police chief William Parker (Nick Nolte), who directs O’Mara to assemble a squad of fellow two-fisted idealists that will operate outside the law, smash Cohen’s operations, and send him packing. In a rather contemporary manner, O’Mara recruits one black cop (Anthony Mackie), one Hispanic (Michael Peña), one colorful old coot (Robert Patrick), and one youngish tech nerd (Giovanni Ribisi). More centrally, he brings in a laid-back smoothie named Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who unwisely launches an affair with Cohen’s moll, a vision in purple satin and crimson lipstick named Grace Faraday. Grace is played by Emma Stone, and it’s hard not to notice that, at age 24, she’s really too young to be a sayer of lines like “Where have you been all my miserable life?” But this is only one of the movie’s problems. (Another is that director Ruben Fleischer, who previously gave us the wonderful "Zombieland," might be more at home with comedy than with this sort of violent genre exercise.)
///Zayn Malik is 20 today, One Direction tweet their birthday wishes///
And it didn’t take long for the singer’s band mates to send their birthday wishes to him either. First to wish Zayn Malik many happy returns was eldest member of the group Louis Tomlinson, 21. He tweeted: “Massive happy birthday to my brother @zaynmalik . See you in a bit ! Huge love !” Up next was Niall Horan ,19, who clearly only likes to celebrate birthdays in one place. Down the pub.
//Zayn Malik Birthday: One Direction Singer Turns 20//
Just one day after Aussie pop star Cody Simpson celebrated his sweet 16, One Direction heartthrob Zayn Malik also hit a major milestone in his life: Leaving his teen years behind. That's right -- our favorite long-lashed, awkwardly dancing member of the British boy band turns 20 today. In honor of Zayn's passage into adulthood, we've collected photos of the fashionable star's best style moments from the past couple years. Click through the slideshow below for sartorial highlights from the singer.
//Record cold expected in Denver//
That glove Peyton Manning has been wearing on his throwing hand will come in quite handy Saturday for what could be the coldest home postseason game in Denver Broncos' history.
Those not playing may want to sit on the heated benches -- or next to the electric heaters -- because the game-time temperature when the Broncos host the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC divisional playoffs is expected to be 17 degrees, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Kalina.
In other words, "bundle up," Kalina said.
The coldest postseason contest at Mile High was 18 degrees for the 1977 AFC Championship Game, when Denver beat Oakland 20-17.
The chilliest home game ever in Denver? That would be 9 degrees against San Diego on Dec 10, 1972.
Being such a meticulous planner, Manning left nothing to chance in the weeks leading up this game. To prepare for the possibility of wintry weather, the four-time NFL MVP wore an orange-and-gray glove on his throwing hand the last two games. Manning has been quite effective, too, with the glove -- his completion percentage has been almost 6 points better and his passer rating almost 20 points higher than without it.
The stickiness of the glove also helps Manning better grip the football, especially these days after the multiple neck surgeries he underwent during his season out of football.
"I certainly don't think I would have had to wear the glove had I not been injured last year," Manning said. "It's part of my injury, some things that I've had to adjust. I'm in a different body. Some things are different for me, so that's the reason for that as much as anything."
The cool weather certainly hasn't been friendly to Manning, who's 0-3 in playoff games in which the temperature at kickoff is less than 40 degrees.
And this game will certainly be well south of that number.
"It's going to be very cold," Kalina said. "There may even be a few flakes, but it shouldn't affect the game. Just really cold."
This isn't even close to the coldest game in NFL history, though. That distinction belongs to "The Ice Bowl" on Dec. 31, 1967, when the temperature at Lambeau Field reached minus-13 (with a minus-48 wind chill) in a contest between Green Bay and Dallas.
All week, Broncos players boasted about wearing short-sleeves despite the cool conditions. It was simply a matter of convincing the mind it really wasn't all the frigid.
"Once you get out there, you're on the field, you're just fine," Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas said earlier this week. "But if you're just sitting around, that's when it gets to you. As long as you're out there on the field and warm, you're good."
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