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Penélope Cruz and Christian Bale in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin." Universal Rotten Tomatoes Score: 28% Synopsis: An Italian officer (Nicolas Cage) is torn between loyalty to his country and his love for a local fisherman's fiancé (Penélope Cruz) as he occupies a Greek island during World War II. Bale appears in the film as Mandras, the fisherman who leaves his love behind to fight the war on the mainland. Bale played Mandras in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" (2001). Rotten Tomatoes Score: 28% Synopsis: An Italian officer (Nicolas Cage) is torn between loyalty to his country and his love for...

High Times Although the magnitude startled me--the stock gained 2,500% in two weeks--GameStop's (GME) surge was not otherwise remarkable. That individual investors have been in a mood since the COVID-19 shutdown has been evidenced by, among other items, the gains of Tesla's stock (TSLA) and Bitcoin. Enthusiasm reigns. Broadly speaking, today's market climate resembles that of the late 1990s. Then, too, upcoming individual investors were aggressive, trading Internet stocks from accounts they had established within discount-brokerage firms. They also brandished their youth as a virtue, believi...

January 20, 2021 at 11:05 am by Sunidhi Sridhar Last Thursday, as part of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s “Script to Screen” series, Director of Pollock Theater Matt Ryan was virtually joined by Oscar-winning screenwriter Charles Randolph for an engaging conversation about his work on “The Big Short” (2015), a true-crime comedy that takes place during the financial crisis of 2008.  Sunidhi Sridhar / Daily Nexus “The Big Short,” based on a real story chronicled in 2010’s “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by Michael Lewis, follo...

Patients, the main population in need of this newly expensive drug. and shkreli wasn't too happy about it. >> i think he's a demagogue. he'll say anything to get a vote. and, you know, for me to be his pinata is unacceptable. i think he has a lot of great ideas. i gave him $2700, which i understood to be the legal limit, and he donated it to a charity. now, i donate millions of dollars to charity, and most young entrepreneurs don't do that. >> who are you supporting for president? >> i haven't made a decision yet. i'd be willing to support a democrat. in fact, i was going to start a democratic...

>> can you with your facilities mass produce this drug? it sounds more like kind of a boutique process for lack of a better word. >> it is bespoke medicine. and we are not allowed to mass-produce these formulations. quite honestly, we could if the fda -- if the laws were changed. we could make a lot more of it. congress passed and president obama signed a law that governs how we conduct ourselves. and there is a pathway to actually making this formulation in an fda-registered facility. unfortunately, right now the fda has kind of said that we can't make this particular formulation in even an f...