| Longtime Coen brothers cinematographer Roger Deakins up against ...
It just seems absurd to me that we can't all come together and talk about it like adults. But on the other hand, most of it is a business, isn't it? And people have to work out their contracts. So it's quite understandable, what's going on. It's just a pity. AP: How did you hook up with Joel and Ethan Coen? Deakins: I'd done a few pictures by then. I think they'd seen, like, "Sid and Nancy" on the one hand and seen "1984" on the other. It was just, I kind of guess, the range of what I do I suppose that attracted them. I was a bit nervous when I met them 'cause I thought, well, two of them, how do they work together? But we hit it off. We met in London, actually, in Notting Hill. And they're — well, you know what they're like — they're really sort of low-key and matter-of-fact and totally unpretentious and we hit it off straight away, really.
With plans in the pipeline Tullow Oil is worth holding
Followers of Tullow Oil have more reason than most blue-chip investors to keep an eye on events in Kenya. One of the £4 billion company's two big exploration projects is in neighbouring Uganda — potentially a billion-barrel field in the Lake Albert rift basin — and Tullow conceded in yesterday's year-end trading update that supply disruptions caused by civil unrest in Kenya meant that drilling was running behind schedule. However, with Uganda not expected to be a meaningful contributor to Tullow for a further five years — pending both confirmation of its potential and the construction of a 700-mile pipeline from Lake Albert to Mombasa, from where the bulk of its output will be exported — shareholders can probably put such concerns to the back of their minds for now.
Rivalry of Ruthian proportions
One of those noises was a massive cheer from the greater New York area. From central Jersey to southern Connecticut, euphoric Giants fans jumped on couches in the suburbs, ran up and down the streets of Manhattan, and called loved ones from coast-to-coast to revel in the joy. It was pandemonium. And not the Corey Worthington kind of pandemonium; no, we're talking the good kind of pandemonium. The other noise? Well, that was a collective gasp from the rest of the continent. If you listened just closely enough, you could also actually hear a collective shaking of heads and rolling of eyes, too. Why the exasperated reaction to one of football's greatest moments? Well, because the Tynes field goal meant the inevitable was now here. Yes, as if the usual 24 hour-a-day pre-Super Bowl hype and second-by-second media attention to the big game wasn't enough, the sports world is now wholly focused on two cities New York and Boston for what feels like the millionth time.
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