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How far did Gerald skip his stone across the lake?
Mary skipped a stone 44 feet across a lake. Gerald skipped a similar stone six elevenths as far as Mary skipped it. How far did Gerald skip his stone?
24 feet.
Gerald Stone, Fake Celebrity
A group of my students create a celebrity sighting in the front lobby of MIT. Good job, guys! EDIT: Yes, the "celebrity" was one of us.
KY: Gerald Stone at IAM Local 153 rally in Henderson, KY
Also includes a portion of Tom Buffenbarger's speech
Nine puts its head on the block
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Ed's Review Dot Com » Movie Review – Stone (2010) {R}
Jack Mabry (Robert DeNiro) is a parole officer at a large prison, but is about to retire. His life is going on autopilot as he merely exists by praying, listening to fundamentalist Christian radio broadcasts, and being mean to his wife and daughter. He is about to retire, but knows how boring it’s going to be, so he asks for permission to finish the cases that are already in progress to extend it a little while. One of these is Gerald ‘Stone’ Creeson (Edward Norton) who was convicted of arson, but now claims to have had an epiphany and wants to get out early to do good work. Meanwhile his wife, on the outside, Lucetta Creeson (Mila Jovovich) works with Jack to help persuade him to let her husband go using all the worldly, womanly wiles that she has to get him to help. Being all alone and sad, he falls for it, and is convinced she is serious about him. Jack doesn’t know which end is up and where his own life will end up....
Stone review
Is a movie that will have the critic circles buzzing with the jobs done by De Niro and Norton, but it will also have audiences walking out of the theater wondering if they saw the same movie. The acting is top notch — which is to be expected from two of the best actors living today — but the story is scattered and inconsistent, the themes that are mentioned are never fully explored, and the tension that builds up leads to a disappointing climax.
The storyJack Mabry (De Niro) is a parole officer living the quintessential life of quiet desperation. He is a troubled man, as shown in the first scene of the movie, where he emotionally blackmails his wife Madylyn (Frances Conroy) into staying with him by threatening their daughter.
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