2012年3月1日星期四
NBA roundup: Durant downs 76ers 0
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cheap nike shoes 2012 Final Score: Oklahoma City 92, Philadelphia 88 Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Kevin Durant scored 23 points, as the Thunder finished strong to down the 76ers, 92-88, on Wednesday.Russell Westbrook had 22 points and a season-high 13 rebounds -- seven offensive -- for the Thunder, who closed the game on a 15-4 run to win their sixth straight.The 76ers halted a season-long five-game losing streak in Tuesday's rout of the Pistons, but shot just 8-for-27 in the fourth quarter against Oklahoma City to fall for the eighth time in 11 games. Andre Iguodala and Jrue Holiday had 18 points apiece, while Thaddeus Young added 16 points and nine rebounds in the setback. Final Score: Orlando 102, Washington 95 Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Ryan Anderson scored 23 points and pulled down 15 rebounds to lead the Magic over the Wizards, 102-95, at Verizon Center on Wednesday. Orlando had seven players in double figures, including Jason Richardson, Jameer Nelson, and Glen Davis, who all contributed 12 points. J.J. Redick added 15 and Dwight Howard had a double-double with 14 points and 12 boards to give the Magic their ninth-straight victory over Washington. John Wall scored a game-high 33 points in the loss, while Jordan Crawford chipped in 18 for Washington, which has dropped six-consecutive games. Three-point shooting was the key for the Magic as they drained 15-of-36 from long range to improve to 16-1 when scoring over 100 points. Final Score: Golden State 85, Atlanta 82 Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - David Lee scored 22 points, including the go- ahead layup inside the final minute, and pulled down 12 rebounds as the Golden State Warriors held off the Atlanta Hawks, 85-82, at Philips Arena. Monta Ellis added a game-high 24 points for the Warriors, who won for the third time in four games. Joe Johnson, who returned from a two-game absence because of tendinitis in his left knee, dropped in 18 points to pace five double-digit scorers for Atlanta, which lost its sixth contest in eight tries. Final Score: Boston 102, Milwaukee 96 Boston, MA (Sports Network) - Kevin Garnett scored 25 points, Rajon Rondo had a triple-double and the Boston Celtics staved off a comeback attempt in the final minutes Wednesday night to beat the Milwaukee Bucks, 102-96. Rondo had 15 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for the Celtics, who won their second in a row on the heels of a five-game losing streak. They salvaged a 1-4 road trip Tuesday with a win over Cleveland and managed to hold on against the Bucks, who used a 13-0 run to cut a 15-point deficit to two points in the last minute. Garnett, who had 10 rebounds, made four straight free throws down the stretch to seal the win. Ersan Ilyasova scored 25 points with 10 rebounds and Drew Gooden had 23 points for the Bucks. Brandon Jennings scored just six and missed two straight shots on a key possession in the waning moments: a driving layup that Garnett didn't contest and then a three-point try from the left corner that could have made it a one-point game. Final Score: Detroit 109, Charlotte 94 Auburn Hills, MI (Sports Network) - Rodney Stuckey poured in a game-high 29 points as the Detroit Pistons crushed the dismal Charlotte Bobcats, 109-94 at The Palace of Auburn Hills on Wednesday. Brandon Knight finished with 20 points and five assists, while Greg Monroe added 19 points to go with a career-high 20 rebounds. Tayshaun Prince also had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds and Ben Gordon added 10 points for the Pistons, who snapped a three-game skid. Corey Maggette paced the Bobcats with 17 points and five boards, while D.J. White and Reggie Williams added 15 and 14 points, respectively. Gerald Henderson contributed 13 points for Charlotte, which has lost three straight and 19 of its last 20 games. Final Score: Toronto 95, New Orleans 84 New Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - Linas Kleiza and Leandro Barbosa combined for 36 points off the bench to help the Raptors defeat the Hornets 95-84 at New Orleans Arena on Wednesday. Kleiza had 21 and Barbosa chipped in 15, while DeMar DeRozan netted 21 as well for the Raptors, who improved to 6-13 on the road, matching last year's road win total for the entire season. Marco Belinelli paced New Orleans with 20 points and Chris Kaman contributed a double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Trevor Ariza and Gustavo Ayon added 11 points apiece for the Hornets, who dropped their fourth game in five contests. Final Score: New York 120, Cleveland 103 New York, NY (Sports Network) - Jeremy Lin was overwhelmed by the Miami Heat his last time out, but he bounced back in a big way against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday. Lin, who went 1-of-11 from the floor while committing eight turnovers against Miami, scored 19 points to go with 13 assists while turning the ball over just once as the New York Knicks downed Cleveland, 120-103. Carmelo Anthony scored 22 and Steve Novak nailed five three-pointers en route to 17 points off the bench for New York, which overcame a 17-point first-half deficit. The Knicks recorded 30 assists on 43 made field goals. Antawn Jamison had a double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds, while Kyrie Irving added 22 to go with seven assists for the Cavs, who have lost three straight games. Final Score: Memphis 96, Dallas 85 Memphis, TN (Sports Network) - Marc Gasol and Mike Conley both had a double- double on Wednesday, leading the Grizzlies to a 96-85 win over the Mavericks. Gasol had 22 points and 11 rebounds, while Conley finished with 20 and 10 assists for the Grizzlies, who have won two straight and eight of their last 10. Rudy Gay added 18 points and seven rebounds. The Mavericks were coming off of Tuesday's 93-92 loss to the Nets and have lost three in a row and four of five overall. They had Dirk Nowitzki for just 10 minutes on Wednesday before he left with lower back tightness. Jason Terry scored a team-high 18 points in the setback, while Rodrigue Beaubois had 16 and Brendan Haywood chipped in 10. Final Score: Utah 104, Houston 83 Salt Lake City, UT (Sports Network) - C.J. Miles came off the bench and scored a game-high 27 points as Utah ran away with a 104-83 victory over Houston at Energy Solutions Arena on Wednesday. Devin Harris, who left the game in the third with flu-like symptoms, netted 19 points for Utah as it snapped a four- game losing streak. Josh Howard and Al Jefferson scored 14 points apiece and Gordon Hayward added 10. Luis Scola had a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds to pace the Houston attack, while Goran Dragic and Kyle Lowry added 14 and 13, respectively. Chase Budinger added 11 off the bench for the Rockets, who had their four-game winning streak snapped. Final Score: Denver 104, Portland 95 Denver, CO (Sports Network) - Ty Lawson scored 18 points to lead seven Denver scorers in double figures as the Nuggets downed the Portland Trail Blazers, 104-95, on Wednesday. Timofey Mozgov had 14 points, Kenneth Faried and Al Harrington each netted 13, Arron Afflalo dropped in 12 and Corey Brewer and Jordan Hamilton contributed 11 apiece for the Nuggets, who snapped a two-game slide. Jamal Crawford scored a game-high 21 points and LaMarcus Aldridge added 20 points to go with nine rebounds for Portland, which lost for the third time in five games. Final Score: Chicago 96, San Antonio 89 San Antonio, TX (Sports Network) - Chicago's Derrick Rose scored 29 points in Wednesday's 96-89 road win at San Antonio. The Spurs entered the game with a 13-1 record at the AT&T Center, but were outscored 31-23 in the fourth quarter to suffer the loss. C.J. Watson added 12 points, while Joakim Noah and Luol Deng had 10 points apiece for the Bulls, who have won four straight and 11 of their last 13 overall. Gary Neal scored 21 points and Tim Duncan chipped in 18 and 10 rebounds for the Spurs. They had won 12 of 13 coming in. Final Score: LA Lakers 104, Minnesota 85 Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - He had a mask over his face, but Kobe Bryant still led the Lakers in Los Angeles' easy 104-85 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday. Bryant, playing with the protective facemask after suffering a broken nose and concussion in Sunday's NBA All-Star Game, scored a game-high 31 points, dished out eight assists and grabbed seven rebounds in almost 33 minutes of action. Andrew Bynum contributed his career-best 22nd double-double of the season with 13 points and 13 rebounds and Pau Gasol added 15 for Los Angeles, which has won three of four. Martell Webster and Michael Beasley, the heroes of Minnesota's comeback win over the Clippers on Tuesday, each had 14 points for the Timberwolves. Anthony Randolph netted 12 and Nikola Pekovic and Derrick Williams had 10 apiece in a losing effort.NBA roundup: Jeremy Lin leads Knicks in comeback
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cheap nike shoes 2012 NEW YORK -- Jeremy Lin had 19 points and 13 assists, Carmelo Anthony scored 22, and the New York Knicks turned around the game with their reserves to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, 120-103, on Wednesday night. Steve Novak had 17 points off the bench as the Knicks turned a 17-point deficit into an easy win, outscoring the Cavs, 71-42, in the second half. They capped a 10-5 month, their first 10-win February since going 10-3 in 1996-97. Boston 102, Milwaukee 96: Rajon Rondo had 15 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists to record his third triple-double of the season for the host Celtics. Oklahoma City 92, Philadelphia 88: Kevin Durant scored 23 points to lead the visiting Thunder, which won its sixth straight game. Toronto 95, New Orleans 84: Linas Kleiza and Demar DeRozan scored 21 points apiece and the visiting Raptors rallied. Memphis 96, Dallas 85: Marc Gasol had 22 points and 11 rebounds, and Mike Conley added 20 points and 10 assists for the host Grizzlies. Golden State 85, Atlanta 82: David Lee scored 22 points, including the go-ahead basket with 30 seconds remaining, for the visiting Warriors. Orlando 102, Washington 95: Ryan Anderson had 23 points and 15 rebounds, and the visiting Magic pulled away late in the fourth quarter. Utah 104, Houston 83: The host Jazz halted a four-game losing streak. Denver 104, Portland 95: Ty Lawson had 18 points and nine assists for the host Nuggets. Jamal Crawford had 21 points and LaMarcus Aldridge had 20 points and nine rebounds for the Trail Blazers. Chicago 96, San Antonio 89: Derrick Rose scored 29 points for the Bulls, who handed the Spurs their second home loss of the season.2012年2月27日星期一
'Wanderlust' doomed by crude schoolboy humor, unnecessary nudity
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But really — these are the 10 biggest hits of the year? "You can’t find a single original movie on it," admits Paul Dergarabedian, hollywood.com’s box-office analyst. "They’re sequels, remakes or they’re setting us up for next year’s ‘The Avengers’ movie. … The box office is being driven by familiar themes, familiar characters." True enough — and although it’s particularly obvious now, it’s been true for years, to some extent. But take a look at what the box-office list used to look like. In 1971, for example, I was 12 and just getting seriously interested in films. And that was easy. Because back then, the top 10 domestic grossers were, in order: "Fiddler on the Roof," "The French Connection," "Summer of ’42," "Diamonds Are Forever," "Dirty Harry," "Carnal Knowledge," "A Clockwork Orange," "Klute," "The Last Picture Show" and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks." The contrast to today is pretty striking — and sad. In 2011, the top 10 movies included two films based on young-adult novels, two more based on toys or amusement-park rides, two superhero films, one sci-fi flick, one cartoon, one raunchy comedy and one over-the-top action picture. Nine of the films were built around action or special effects; not one was a drama. In 1971, however, you had a musical, and three gritty crime stories. You had a romance, two serious dramas, a dark political satire and a children’s movie. Only one film, a 007 flick, counted as a sequel. The vast majority of movies were made for adults. At least half are now considered to be classics. And they were still huge hits. "â‘Carnal Knowledge,’ ‘Clockwork Orange’ — the best movies were the most successful movies," director Steven Soderbergh says. "And that changed. That just doesn’t exist anymore." "Those were challenging movies," agrees David A. Gross, founder of the smart critique site MovieReviewIntelligence.com. "They were dramatic and interesting and we’re not seeing that anymore. … The idea of the serious studio drama, made for a wide audience — that genre’s in a tough place, now." transformers-3-dark-of-the-moon-whitty-movies.JPGJaimie Trueblood/© 2011 Paramount Pictures CorporationShia LaBeouf played Sam Witwicky in "Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon" from Paramount Pictures. The 'Transformers' movie was one of the top grossing movies of 2011. A pretty obscure place, too. Never mind the top 10 — go through last year’s top 50 and look for all the movies that didn’t depend on special effects, car chases or a dirty joke. There’s "The Help," at No. 11 — and then, toward the very bottom of the list, "Contagion," "Moneyball," "Water for Elephants" and "The Lincoln Lawyer." Five dramas. Five out of 50 films. So what happened? Why are today’s biggest hits often movies aimed at the easiest audience? Why has Hollywood practically given up on the kind of movies — "The Godfather," "Kramer Vs. Kramer," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest," "Ordinary People," "Chinatown" — that were both grown-up stories and popular favorites? Where did all the smart hits go? The answer began long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Because "Star Wars" proved that you could take what seemed like a kiddie matinee (funny robots and laser sabers!) and treat it like a real movie, and make real money. It proved you could use a new kind of marketing and distribution (saturation TV ads, huge releases) to get a new kind of mass audience (teens who would come multiple times, then buy the merchandise). It proved you didn’t need adults to have a huge hit. And eventually moguls realized you could apply those rules to all sorts of special-effects driven movies — not just the good ones. And they saw that, because those movies rarely had a lot of complicated dialogue, they did even better overseas. So by the ’90s, as markets opened up in once-Communist territories (or once-impoverished Third World countries), studios began catering to them by concentrating on action-crammed, no-subtitles-needed adventures. There’s a reason why big, dumb, loud movies like these now rule the top 10. And it’s because they’re the sort of movies that now rule every studio’s globally-conscious production slate. "I used to run international sales at Fox, and you’d make 40 percent of your money overseas," Gross says of the shift. "Now, it can be as much as 70 percent. … Countries like Russia, Brazil, China, their interest in our films is exploding, which can be great. "But China doesn’t give a damn about ‘The Social Network.’ What plays are good guys and bad guys and things that everybody can understand, like ‘Transformers.’â…" "It’s a global business now," agrees Dergarabedian. "And also, at home, we’re living in a world of video games, and the net, and that’s changed forever how people consume and view entertainment. I mean today, compared to ‘Fast Five,’ ‘The French Connection’ would be considered a post-modern, European-style thriller. … Adult dramas — well, I don’t think Hollywood’s ever going to stop making them. But they’re only going to make them at the right price." a-clockwork-orange-whitty-movies.JPGFile photoMalcolm McDowell in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, a top-grossing movie in 1971. And that consideration is the flip side of the big change. Because just as Hollywood long ago decided they could maximize profits by turning B-movie ideas into A-movie epics, they’ve slowly realized they can minimize risks by making A-movie ideas on B-movie budgets. So yes, they’ll still make a smart movie — but often only if everyone is willing to take a pay cut, trim the crowd scenes, forget the on-location filming and give up on any huge publicity campaign. The idea of a star-driven, serious story like "Out of Africa" or "Reds" or "All the President’s Men," however — let alone the intelligent, international epics David Lean used to undertake? Forget it. Unless there’s a hobbit involved, most studios aren’t interested in funding ambition. "Once you start to spend real money, they get worried," Kevin Kline confided to me last year. "A director told me the most excruciating note he’d ever gotten from a studio: He was pitching a project and the executive said, ‘These characters are far too complex for a budget this big.’â…" "One of the big studios actually put out the word, ‘We’re not doing any more dramas,’â…" John Sayles told me recently. "Dramas — you know, that’s a pretty big category to just write off! But what they’re saying is, drama is not a sure thing. It’s complicated, it’s risky, it’s not a product we know how to sell anymore." Of course, studios used to know how, before they got distracted by all the spandex and sci-fi. And, admitted, they’ll still make a serious film, particularly if they can get a big star attached (like Brad Pitt and "Moneyball"), or steer it toward their cheaper, leaner, "independent" — more like "co-dependent" — subsidiaries. The difference — and the problem — is that, only a decade or so ago, a movie like "The Descendants" would have come out from Fox, not its smaller sibling, Fox Searchlight. Instead of playing a few big-city dates, an uncompromisingly adult film like "Shame" would be — as "Carnal Knowledge" was — in unabashed wide release. Knowing that these movies could be difficult sells, the studios simply would have committed more time and money to selling them.Embracing past glory
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