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Full-Throttle Franchise


Full-Throttle Franchise

Author: Joshua Gulam

language: en

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Release Date: 2023-01-12


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When the first Fast & Furious film was released in June 2001, few predicted that it would be a box office hit, let alone the launchpad for a multi-billion-dollar franchise. A mid-budget crime movie set around L.A.'s underground car-racing scene, featuring a cast of relative unknowns, the film became one of the surprise hits of that summer, earning more than 5 times its budget in worldwide ticket sales. 2 decades and 9 films later, Fast & Furious today ranks among the 10 highest-grossing movie franchises of all time, with a box office total of $6.6 billion and has also given rise to an animated TV show and theme park ride. Full-Throttle Franchise is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of the Fast & Furious, bringing together a range of scholars to explore not only the style and themes of the franchise, but also its broader cultural impact and legacy. The collected essays establish the franchise's importance in cinematic and ideological terms, linking their discussions to wider issues of genre, representation, adaptation, and industry. Topics range from stardom and performance, focusing on key actors Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, to the way in which Fast & Furious intersects with dominant ideas of racial, gender, and sexual identity. Aimed at both scholars and fans, Full-Throttle Franchise seeks to uncover just what has made Fast & Furious so enduringly popular, mapping its outrageous set pieces, ever-expanding universe, and growing cast of global megastars in terms of wider cultural and industrial forces.

Fast And Furious: A Comprehensive Collection Of U.S. Government Documents To 2017


Fast And Furious: A Comprehensive Collection Of U.S. Government Documents To 2017

Author:

language: en

Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones

Release Date: 2018-12-11


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Over 26,000 total pages .... Background: The Fast and Furious operation was responsible for allowing approximately 2,000 firearms to illegally flow into the hands of criminals, including Mexican drug cartel associates. On December 14, 2010, Customs and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, a United States Marine, was killed while on patrol just miles from the Mexican border. The firearms found at the scene were semi-automatic rifles that were allowed to walk as part of Operation Fast and Furious. Congressional Republicans have investigated Fast and Furious since January 2011. Over the course of the investigation, the Justice Department has provided false information, stonewalled document requests, produced scores of blacked-out pages and duplicate documents, and refused to comply with two congressional subpoenas. In August 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives Office of General Counsel filed suit against the Justice Department. On January 19, 2016, United States District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued her opinion and ordered DOJ release documents previously withheld under the President’s executive privilege claim. On April 8, 2016, DOJ complied with the Judge’s order, delivering more than 20,500 pages of documents to the Committee. CONTENTS: Statement of Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General - Report by the Office of the Inspector General on the Review of ATF's Operation Fast and Furious and Related Matters. September 20, 2012 FACT SHEET: Oversight Committee Schedules June 20 Contempt Vote over Operation Fast and Furious Documents Flash Memorandum: April 14, 2016 To: Republican Members Committee on Oversight and Government Reform From: Chairman Jason Chaffetz Re: Preliminary Update—The Fast and Furious Papers A Review of ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious and Related Matters (REDACTED): September 2012 Re-issued November 2012 (Some previously redacted material unredacted) Part I of III Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation Part I Appendix 1 Part 1/3 - Report "Part I of III: Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation" Part I Appendix 1 Part 2/3 - Report "Part I of III: Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation" Part I Appendix 1 Part 3/3 - Report "Part I of III: Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation" Part I Appendix 2 Part 1/3 - Report "Part I of III: Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation" Part I Appendix 2 Part 2/3 - Report "Part I of III: Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation" Part I Appendix 2 Part 3/3 - Report "Part I of III: Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation" Part I Appendix 3 - Report "Part I of III: Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation" Part II of III Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation Part III of III Fast and Furious: Obstruction of Congress by the Department of Justice The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Fueling Cartel Violence The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents ATF Documents related to Operation Fast and Furious - Parts 01 through 14 ATF Documents related to Operation Fast and Furious – Responses A through Q Witnesses and testimonies: The Honorable Charles E. Grassley Josephine Terry - Mother of Late Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry Robert Heyer - Terry Family Spokesman John Dodson - Special Agent, Phoenix Field Division Witnesses - Full Committee Hearing: Operation Fast and Furious: The Other Side of the Border: Carlos Canino, ATF Acting Attaché to Mexico Darren Gil, Former ATF Attaché to Mexico Jose Wall, ATF Senior Special Agent,Tijuana, Mexico Lorren Leadmon, ATF Intelligence Operations Specialist William Newell, Former ATF Special Agent in Charge, Phoenix Field Division William McMahon, ATF Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FIND ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH A SUBPOENA DULY ISSUED BY THE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM R E P O R T OF THE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OPERATION FAST AND FURIOUS: RECKLESS DECISIONS, TRAGIC OUTCOMES HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OPERATION FAST AND FURIOUS: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION

CNN 互動英語 2019 年 10 月號 No.229 【有聲版】


CNN 互動英語 2019 年 10 月號 No.229 【有聲版】

Author: LiveABC編輯群

language: en

Publisher: 希伯崙股份有限公司

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Well, fans of basketball and the NBA may be wondering, “Whatever happened to Jeremy Lin?” Can you believe it was seven years ago when he burst onto the scene? Such a burst it was—given its own name, “Linsanity,” and a movie was even made about it. For those of you who may not be aware or need some refreshing, well, Lin’s rise- to-basketball story is nothing less than extraordinary. He went unnoticed in high school and, then again, after college, getting passed over in the NBA draft, and that’s where most NBA stars sign million-dollar contracts. But Lin never gave up, eventually signing with—but then released by—two NBA teams. [He] was on the cusp of being released again, but due to injury to a star player, Lin led the Knicks to victory with [over] New Jersey with 25 points, five rebounds and seven assists—all career highs. Then, the very next game: 28 points. A few days later: 23 points, 10 assists. And then, February 10, a career-high—yep, it was a new one for him—38 points. All wins for the Knicks, who needed them badly. Linsanity was born. Indeed, no player had ever scored more points in his first five starts than Jeremy Lin. In just 26 games with the New York Knicks—before ending the season early with a knee injury—he had captured global headlines. Quite simply, he was the story of the NBA. Well, Lin’s story has another level of uniqueness to it. He was the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA and one of the few Asian-Americans to ever do so. But over the next nine NBA seasons and eight different teams, Lin was never able to match that Linsanity level. His scoring and assist numbers would pretty much be in steady decline. Just this past season, however, he was traded to the Toronto Raptors, where he would become the first Asian-American to win an NBA title. You’d think that winning that crown would be a boost for any player, but in a candid speech recently on [a] tour of Asia, the 30-year-old, who hardly had any court time with the Raptors, felt like he didn’t deserve a title. Now, he’s looking for a new team but has no offers. JEREMY LIN, BASKETBALL PLAYER In English, there’s a saying, and it says, “Once you hit rock bottom, the only way is up,” but rock bottom—[it] just seems to keep getting more and more rock bottom for me. And I came into the NBA—a young, brash kid who thought, “I was gonna take over the world.” Nowadays, I spend more time thinking about quitting. KATE RILEY, CNN ANCHOR And sure, you … he may have made millions of dollars, but you can’t help but feel for the guy. Kudos for revealing a side of a big-name athlete we rarely see. CNN主播 凱特．萊麗 歡迎回來。籃球和NBA的愛好者也許在納悶：「林書豪到底怎麼了？」你能相信他嶄露頭角是七年前的事了嗎？當時氣氛之火熱，還被取了個專有名稱「林來瘋」，甚至拍了一部關於這件事的電影。 各位如果有人不曉得，或是需要複習一下的話，林書豪在籃壇崛起的故事可是相當不簡單。他在高中沒受到注意，後來大學畢業後也是如此，在NBA選秀會中被忽視，而選秀會是多數NBA明星球員簽下百萬美元合約的機會。 但林書豪不曾放棄，終於陸續和兩支NBA球隊簽約，但接著也都被釋出。他原本又即將遭到釋出，但因為一位明星球員受傷，林書豪帶領尼克隊擊敗紐澤西隊，拿下二十五分、五個籃板和七次助攻——全都是生涯新高。緊接著下一場比賽：二十八分。幾天後：二十三分、十次助攻。接著，在二月十日又創下生涯最高的三十八分——沒錯，那是他的新高。這幾場比賽尼克隊都贏了，該隊正迫切需要這些勝場。林來瘋誕生了。 確實，沒有球員在頭五場先發比賽中的得分比林書豪多。代表紐約尼克隊僅出賽二十六場即因膝蓋受傷導致球季提早報銷的他，成了全球新聞頭條的焦點。很簡單，他成了NBA的代表故事。 林書豪的故事還有另一層面的獨特性。他是第一位進入NBA打球的中裔或台裔美國人，也是史上極少數做到這一點的亞裔美國人其中之一。但在接下來的九個NBA球季，歷經八支不同球隊，林書豪卻未能再達到林來瘋那時的水準。他的得分與助攻數可以說是每況愈下。 不過就在剛結束的這一季，他被交易到多倫多暴龍隊，在那裡成為首位贏得NBA總冠軍的亞裔美國人。你可能會認為贏得冠軍對於任何一名球員而言都會是一大助力，但最近在亞洲巡迴中一場開誠布公的演說上，這位在暴龍隊幾乎沒有獲得任何上場時間的三十歲球員卻覺得自己不配得到冠軍。現在，他在找新東家，卻沒有收到任何出價。 籃球員 林書豪 英語裡有一句俗語是這麼說的：「當你跌到谷底，唯一的路就是往上，」可是對我來說，谷底卻彷彿愈來愈深。 我當初進NBA時是個厚顏魯莽的年輕小子，想著：「我要稱霸世界。」現在，更多時候我心裡想的卻是放棄。 CNN主播 凱特．萊麗 當然，你……他也許賺了數百萬美元，但還是忍不住替他感到難過。值得讚許的是，他展露了一位大咖運動員我們極少看見的一面。