Commitment (Korean: 동창생; Hanja: 同窓生; RR: Dongchangsaeng; lit. "Alumnus" or "The Graduate") is a 2013 South Korean action drama film starring Choi Seung-hyun.[4] He plays the teenage son of an ex-North Korean agent who is tasked to kill a North Korean assassin in South Korea in order to save his younger sister played by Kim Yoo-jung.[5][6][7][8]
The film was released in South Korea on November 6, 2013, opening at number 2 in the box office.[13] On its opening weekend, it sold 689,600 tickets, grossing US$2,859,921.[14][15] In total, Commitment grossed US$6,512,794 with 1,048,254 tickets sold nationwide.[16][17]
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Following its pre-sales deal to seven Asian countries (Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia),[18] distribution company Well Go USA acquired the North American rights to the film and gave it a limited theatrical release on December 6, 2013.[19][20] Commitment played in a total of 22 theaters and grossed US$60,317 on its opening weekend.[21][22] In total, the film grossed US$76,543 during its North American run.[23]
Adriano finally broke the deadlock in the 38th when he poked the ball off left back from Kim Chi-woo's cross. It was his 13th goal of the tournament, tying the single-season ACL scoring record set by Guangzhou Evergrande's Muriqui in 2013.
Kim Jee-woon, best known for "A Bittersweet Life" (2004), "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" (2008) and "I Saw The Devil" (2010), has added one more title to the list: "The Age of Shadows." Kim made his Hollywood directorial debut with "The Last Stand" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2013.
An intriguing study is about opportunities missed and wrong paths taken in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Von Eschen argues that the Cold War's demise posed an epistemic crisis for its participants: no longer facing a clearly identifiable enemy, there was no guarantee of a stable world system. Ignoring the pleas of appealing new figures like Gorbachev, Mandela, Havel, and Walesa, all of whom visited the White House to make their case, American leaders embraced American exceptionalism, the U.S.'s unipolar domination of the world. Concurrently, the U.S. and other countries turned to the right, gutting social safety nets and privatizing services while promoting unconstrained free market capitalism. Nostalgia for older times, even missing the Cold War, has since increased on all sides. Von Eschen mixes high political narrative (Bush through Trump; Gorbachev to Putin) with excursions into pop culture (visits to the Spy Museum and Eastern European historical theme parks; discussion of movies and novels) to illuminate connections in this complicated story. The joints aren't always seamless but mostly it works. VERDICT Not easy to read, but an interesting, important book. For lovers of history and current events. - Library Journal
Bob Leggett, CIA Senior Analyst, Author/Editor Robert E. Leggett, 80, a Senior CIA Analyst, Author/Editor, died 17 July 2022 in Fairfax, VA. He lived in Vienna, VA. He was born in Nanticoke, PA. He was president of his class at Catasauqua High School in Pennsylvania, and was a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT, where he was vice president of his class, broke the basketball scoring record, and pitched the only no-hitter in Academy history. He was inducted into the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991 and recognized as the "Distinguished Alumnus" at his 50th reunion in 2013. His third assignment as a Coast Guard officer was serving as commanding officer of an 82' Coast Guard Cutter as part of Operation Market Time in Vietnam. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V. Following his service in Vietnam, Bob enrolled at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA where he received a PhD in Economics. While there pursuing his graduate degrees, he coached basketball at Lehigh University and taught Economics at Lehigh and Lafayette College. His work at the CIA initially focused on the economy and military capability of the Soviet Union. He went on to serve as the Liaison Officer of Congressional Affairs, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Global and Multilateral Issues, and Academic Coordinator. Following his retirement from the Agency, he worked at consulting firms as a program manager and consultant to the intelligence community and law enforcement agencies. Bob coached and managed many Vienna Little League and Vienna and McLean Youth Basketball teams. He was currently serving as chairman of the Vienna Business Liaison Committee. He is survived by a daughter, and other family. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, 22 July 2022, at Vienna Presbyterian Church, followed by a reception at Westwood Country Club in Vienna, VA.
Johns Hopkins University asks you to join host Michael Ard for a virtual curated discussion with veteran Naval intelligence officer Erik Dahl on the intelligence analysis comparisons between the strategic warnings for 9/11 and January 6th. Erik J. Dahl is an associate professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, and is author of "Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond" (Georgetown University Press, 2013), and "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (forthcoming). Dahl retired from the U.S. Navy in 2002 after serving 21 years as an intelligence officer, and received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Tufts University. Dahl is a former chair of the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association. No charge to attend. Register here
Saturday's news report did not name Kim's daughter, who was appearing for the first time in state media. But in 2013, former basketball star Dennis Rodman told Britain's the Guardian newspaper that Kim had a "baby" called "Ju Ae."
A number of reviews have positively compared the series and its creators to other culturally significant works and individuals, respectively. In 2013, Entertainment Weekly reviewer Darren Franich called the series "a hybrid sci-fi/fantasy/horror/musical/fairy tale, with echoes of Calvin and Hobbes, Hayao Miyazaki, Final Fantasy, Richard Linklater, Where the Wild Things Are, and the music video you made with your high school garage band".[126] Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker praised Adventure Time's unique approach to emotion, humor, and philosophy by likening it to "World of Warcraft as recapped by Carl Jung".[127] Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club concluded that the show was "basically what would happen if you asked a bunch of 12-year-olds to make a cartoon, only it's the best possible version of that, like if all the 12-year-olds were super geniuses and some of them were Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and the Marx Brothers".[123]
After the success of the original comic book line, several spin-off mini-series were launched. In April 2012, a six-issue miniseries titled Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens written by Meredith Gran who created the series Octopus Pie was announced. It was launched in July 2012 and features the characters Marceline and Princess Bubblegum touring the Land of Ooo as part of Marceline's rock band, The Scream Queens.[216] Another six-issue miniseries, Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake was launched in January 2013. This series, drawn by Adventure Time series character designer and storyboard revisionist Natasha Allegri, follows the gender-bent characters Fionna the Human and Cake the Cat from the episode "Fionna and Cake".[217] Other spin-off comic series including Candy Capers, Flip Side, Banana Guard Academy, and Adventure Time: Ice King, have been released, each written and illustrated by different writers and artists.[218][219][220][221] One-shot spin-offs have also been announced; the first, Spoooktacular #1, was released in October 2015.[222]
A separate line of comics, officially denoted as graphic novels, have also been released. Books in this line include Playing with Fire (June 14, 2013),[223] Pixel Princesses (November 6, 2013),[224] Seeing Red (May 2, 2014),[225] Bitter Sweets (November 11, 2014),[226] Graybles Schmaybles (May 12, 2015),[227] Masked Mayhem (November 11, 2015),[228] The Four Castles (May 17, 2016),[229] President Bubblegum (September 27, 2016),[230] Brain Robbers (March 28, 2017),[231] The Ooorient Express (July 18, 2017),[232] Princess & Princess (January 30, 2018),[233] Thunder Road (June 19, 2018),[234] and Marceline the Pirate Queen (February 26, 2019).[235]
Other Adventure Time-themed books have also been released. The Adventure Time Encyclopaedia, published on July 22, 2013, was written by comedian Martin Olson, father of Olivia Olson and the voice of recurring character Hunson Abadeer.[239] This was followed by Adventure Time: The Enchiridion & Marcy's Super Secret Scrapbook!!!, which was released on October 6, 2015. Written by Martin and Olivia Olson, it is presented as a combination of the Enchiridion and Marceline's secret diary.[240] An official Art of ... book, titled The Art of Ooo was published on October 14, 2014. It contains interviews with cast and crew members, and opens with an introduction by film-maker Guillermo del Toro.[241] Two volumes with collections of the show's title cards have also been released,[242][243] as has a cookbook with recipes inspired by the show,[244] and a series of prose novels published under the header "Epic Tales from Adventure Time" (which includes The Untamed Scoundrel, Queen of Rogues, The Lonesome Outlaw, and The Virtue of Ardor, all of which were published under the pseudonym "T. T. MacDangereuse").[245][246][247][248] 2ff7e9595c
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