Now, they've locked up the guy protecting his blind side.
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How far into The Blind Side do the Steelers believe?
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I didn't see Alonso coming because he was on my blind side.
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"The Blind Side is my favorite sports movie," she says in the video.
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Blind-side detection and rear cross-traffic alert capabilities come as standard equipment.
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Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad says The Blind Side made a huge impression on her.
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Oher -- the inspiration behind the movie "The Blind Side" -- was eventually arrested for assault.
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"I didn't see him coming, (and) he hit me from the blind side," Johansson said.
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The Cornhuskers regained the momentum after cornerback Cam Taylor sacked Johnson from his blind side.
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This is The Accused meets The Blind Side meets The Social Network meets Friday Night Lights.
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Note: A full suite of advanced electronic safety items — blind-side monitoring, lane-departure warning, etc.
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He's the author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, The Blind Side, The Fifth Risk.
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Oher was made famous when Michael Lewis published The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game in 2006.
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One such nomination (for Bullock for The Blind Side) resulted in her taking home an Academy Award.
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"Anna is not Sandra Bullock, and this is not 'The Blind Side,'" he said to the judge.
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It was a blind-side, post-whistle hit where the principle point of contact was White's head.
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Sandra Bullock Bullock won her first Academy Award in 2010, for her role in The Blind Side.
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Previously, players were only allowed to deliver blind-side blocks that avoided the head or neck area.
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The Blind Side made Oher unusually famous for a college offensive lineman while playing at Ole Miss.
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Kyle Murphy, a sixth-round pick in 2016, stepped in on Aaron Rodgers' blind side on Saturday night.
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NFL player Michael Oher's story of homelessness and struggle in 'The Blind Side' was inspirational to the world
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So I don't think they have to worry too much about me coming at them from their blind side.
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While it showed her immense maturity, it wasn't quite the blind-side that producers usually want for their Bachelorette.
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Quinton Aaron, best known for portraying football star "Big Mike" Oher in The Blind Side, has a message for your kids.
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As the team's left tackle, Smith is charged with protecting Prescott's blind side, and he doubles as an elite run blocker.
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He sat out with back and groin injuries, leaving the third-year player Chaz Green to protect Dak Prescott's blind side.
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It was as if "The Blind Side" had provided the inspiration for a professional football career and not the other way around.
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The nine-year NFL veteran is known in part for his impoverished upbringing, which is chronicled in the film The Blind Side.
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That part of the body isn't just used for head butting blokes on the blind side of the ref in the clinch.
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Does he have broader plans — more deep dropbacks or fewer 6- and 7-man protections — in mind with the blind side fortified?
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Speaking to Newsday, Bolles said he's inspired by Carolina Panthers offensive tackle Michael Oher, whose story was famously profiled in The Blind Side.
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There was a hushed excitement as they were shepherded into the enclosure, clutching their cameras as they skirted around the rhino's blind side.
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And after one disappointing injury-plagued year in Nashville talk about his NFL career had moved from "The Blind Side" to the down side.
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Oher — the left tackle from the hardscrabble background who is the subject of The Blind Side — is doing quite well on the field, too.
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The Titan used for this column also was loaded with advanced electronic safety items — blind-side monitoring, forward collision mitigation, rear cross-traffic alert.
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Bucs cornerback Jude Adjei-Brimah forced a Kaepernick fumble with a blind-side sack, and defensive tackle Gerald McCoy recovered at the 210ers' 214.
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I came at him from his blind side, and arrived just as he slowed up a touch to execute a feint on our goaltender.
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Her story is both empowering and inspiring, and Bullock excels at playing real-life characters (her role in The Blind Side earned her an Oscar).
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"As soon as doctors clear me, my plans include blocking #17's blind side all the way to Miami [the site of Super Bowl LIV]."
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Incumbent left tackle Donald Penn has moved over to the right side with rookie first-round pick Kolton Miller working on Derek Carr's blind side.
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Penny saved the drive with a spectacular, one-handed reception of a pass that came out of Chapman's hand awkwardly after a blind-side hit.
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Hint: Get the popularly equipped SE trim with the Toyota Safety Sense package, which gives you blind-side monitoring, lane-departure warning and other capabilities.
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Wayne pushes a resistance sled — the kind you see in football movies like The Blind Side — and then swings a sledgehammer at a few tires.
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Safety offerings have been improved — rearview camera, blind-side monitoring, and a "city braking" device, operable at low speeds, to reduce the risk of hitting pedestrians.
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Attempts to reach Oher — the subject of the movie "The Blind Side" — were unsuccessful, and his agent Drew Rosenhaus declined to comment on his client's situation.
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Brown, 25, was acquired in a trade during April's draft from the San Francisco 49ers and has spent the whole offseason starting on Tom Brady's blind side.
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Clady will try do so as he protects the blind side of quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, making him almost as critical to the Jets' success as Fitzpatrick is.
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Defensive end Wes Horton had a blind-side strip-sack of 49ers quarterback Brian Hoyer, and defensive tackle Star Lotulelei recovered his fumble at San Francisco's 42.
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Truckers call the passenger side the blind side; avoid backing on this side if possible, even if it requires circling the block to find a better approach.
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Lil Kim's blind side will be totally safe recording her new album ... 'cause she's got some serious beef helping her make hip-hop magic ... Ex-NFLer Bryant McKinnie.
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Michael Oher, the NFL star who inspired the 2009 Sandra Bullock movie The Blind Side, is accused of assaulting an Uber driver in Nashville, Tennessee, PEOPLE has confirmed.
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Jones also was in the midst of a big game against Northwestern, with three touchdown passes before being crushed by a blind-side hit in the second half.
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Michael Oher: The protagonist of The Blind Side was famously marked for greatness at an early age, while he was still picking his way through a challenging childhood.
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Jackson wowed the crowd with a juking, hurdling jaunt to the end zone late in the first quarter, but Willie Snead's illegal blind-side block negated the score.
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The difference between those films and "Joker," though, is that "The Blind Side" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" were conventional crowd-pleasers, while "Joker" is a violent, feel-bad bummer.
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Oher, the subject of the movie "The Blind Side," started 16 regular-season games and three playoff games for the Panthers during their Super Bowl run in 2015.
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NFL lineman Michael Oher -- the inspiration for the movie "The Blind Side" -- turned himself in to police on Monday to be booked for allegedly roughing up an Uber driver.
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He wowed the crowd with a juking, hurdling jaunt to the end zone late in the first quarter, but Willie Snead's illegal blind-side block brought the score back.
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Washington State's last-gasp effort ended when Keisean Lucier-South delivered a blind-side hit on Gordon to force the Cougars' fourth second-half fumble inside the final minute.
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Last week, the Carolina Panthers released Michael Oher, the lineman made famous in "The Blind Side," the movie that told the story of his growing up with foster parents.
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But despite being raised by a famous dad, the actress has paved her own way in Hollywood starring in movies like Mirror Mirror, Stuck in Love and The Blind Side.
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It offers as standard equipment advanced electronic safety items sold as costly options on other cars — blind-side monitoring, collision-mitigation braking, pedestrian-intervention braking, road-departure mitigation and more.
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A group of All-Stars played the Toronto Maple Leafs in a charity game to raise money for Bailey, who had his career ended by a blind-side hit in 1933.
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And in 2010, Sandra Bullock accepted her Best Actress Oscar for The Blind Side wearing a romantic beaded Marchesa gown that also landed her on the top of best dressed lists.
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Bullock won an Oscar for her role in 2009's "The Blind Side" and was nominated again for the award in 2013 for "Gravity," which she appeared in with George Clooney.
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Green Bay's starter on Rodgers' blind side, Bakhtiari limped off the field and had to ride a cart to the locker room during the Family Night practice on Saturday at Lambeau Field.
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Castonzo will attempt to return and make his season debut against the Eagles, but head coach Frank Reich indicated the Colts are playing it safe with quarterback Andrew Luck's blind-side protector.
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With Minnesota driving toward a potential score just before halftime, linebacker Clay Matthews' blind-side sack of Bradford jarred the ball loose, with defensive tackle Mike Daniels recovering at the Packers' 46.
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" There's the overeager, try-hard teacher Miss Montgomery, who gets into debates with students about whether or not the pope is cool and compares herself to "Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side.
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In 2010, The Blind Side and Moneyball author Michael Lewis wrote a book about it, The Big Short, based on insiders who predicted the events that spun the financial world into chaos.
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Alcon, founded in 1997 and financed by the FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith, rose to prominence in Hollywood in 2009, when "The Blind Side," a modestly budgeted drama, became an unexpected hit.
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Oher, now almost 231.3 years old, was made famous as a teenager in Michael Lewis' book The Blind Side, as well the Oscar-winning movie of the same name starring Sandra Bullock.
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Here are excerpts from the conversation: Question: What do you think is the biggest fear among CEOs, could it be the failure to see a new technology catch them on their blind side?
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It can be had with blind-side monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, pedestrian and forward-collision mitigation, and all of the things that can protect your body and ego from pain and embarrassment.
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Safety: Standard equipment includes front and rear ventilated disc brakes; four-wheel antilock brake protection; pre-collision and post-collision safety systems; blind-side monitoring; stability and traction control; side and head air bags.
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It also is loaded with helpful technology: head-up windshield display to keep vital traffic information in front of your face; blind-side and lane-departure monitoring; rear cross-traffic alert, and much more.
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It's not the blind side, it's in his vision, so if he's comfortable with what's going on over on the left side, it can help him move in the pocket a little bit better.
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Bullock, known for "Miss Congeniality" as well as dramas "The Blind Side" and "Gravity", plays Malorie, a woman desperate to keep her two children safe from an unseen threat that leads people to commit suicide.
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As part of their 'I Love Movies' series, Fandango polled Olympians – past and present – about which moments in sports movies like The Blind Side, Creed, The Sandlot and Stick It have inspired them in real life.
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Left tackle Russell Okung is a better blind-side protector than a zone-blocking scheme puller, but between second-round tackle Ty Sambrailo and free-agent signee Donald Stevenson, the Broncos have zero good right tackles.
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Safety: Standard equipment includes front and rear ventilated disc brakes; four-wheel anti-lock brake protection; emergency braking assistance; traction and stability control; blind-side monitoring; rear cross-traffic alert; and side and head air bags.
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How he fits: The Raiders had been strong on the offensive line in recent years, but they've had some turnover and some injuries so they selected a mammoth left tackle to protect Derek Carr's blind side.
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Washington State 6-foot-313, 315 pounds The adjustment to the N.F.L. may take a bit of time, but the tools are all there for Dillard to be a blind side anchor for years to come.
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Directed by John Lee Hancock ("The Blind Side") from a script by John Fusco, "The Highwaymen" offers itself as a corrective to one of the most famous — and in its day controversial — products of 1960s Hollywood.
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Their company, Alcon Entertainment, was just coming off hits like The Blind Side, The Book of Eli, and Dolphin Tale, and they had spent a year quietly acquiring the rights to produce a new Blade Runner movie.
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Only "The Blind Side," which featured a young black actor, Quinton Aaron, and "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," could make a serious claim to ethnic diversity among the best picture nominees in those years.
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Oher, whose story was the basis of "The Blind Side," a book by Michael Lewis and a 2009 movie starring Sandra Bullock, played for the Baltimore Ravens and the Tennessee Titans before joining the Panthers last year.
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In "The Blind Side," a homeless black teenager is taken in by a wealthy Memphis family who introduced him to football, a sport that helped him to attend college and ultimately become a first round NFL draft pick.
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John Lee Hancock's movie, based on "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game," Michael Lewis's book, is "in effect, a live-action, reality-based version of a Disney cartoon," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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Bullock, who last won an Academy Award for The Blind Side in 2010, arrived dressed in a Louis Vuitton ombré black-and-gold mock-neck metallic gown with a ruffle down the side, paired with a metallic clutch.
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But hints of the future are there in the Transit Connect Titanium wagon — Ford's Sync 3 infotainment system with a 6.5-inch screen, advanced electronic safety systems (with items such as blind-side monitoring and lane-departure alerts).
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The Blind Side (2010) and The Help (2011) both slayed their awards seasons, with Sandra Bullock winning a Golden Globe for best actress in a motion picture drama and Octavia Spencer winning for best supporting actress in a motion picture, respectively.
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In recent history, the PGA came close to matching AMPAS' best picture nominees film-for-film in two consecutive years: In 2010, The Blind Side scored a surprise nomination from the Academy, likely taking the place of the PGA's alternate, Invictus.
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Safety: Standard equipment includes front and rear ventilated disc brakes; four-wheel anti-lock brake protection; post-collision safety system; traction and stability control; rear cross-traffic alert; blind-side and lane-departure warning; and side and head air bags.
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When asked about being one of the league's lowest-paid starting left tackles — a position that guards his quarterback's blind side and often commands a premium in the N.F.L. — he pointed out that others had endured far more serious challenges.
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"Danny and Amos's work has something to say about why baseball players get misvalued, or why people can't see the value of Michael Oher in 'The Blind Side,' or why people can't see what mortgage-backed securities really are," he said.
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The 29-year-old, whose life and family were the focus of the 2009 box office smash The Blind Side, had struggled professionally in recent years – but all that changed when he got a personal text from Carolina Panthers star quarterback Cam Newton.
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The film, based on the New York Times best-selling book, is certain to pull on your heartstrings, and there's a world in which this possible crowd-pleaser follows in the footsteps of 2009's surprise Best Picture nominee The Blind Side. —J.
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But on 24rd-and-27 from the Philadelphia 4-yard line, Case Keenum dropped back to pass and Barnett came up on the blind side and jarred the ball out of Keenum's throwing hand as the quarterback tried to get set to throw.
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There are precedents: Films like "The Blind Side" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" weren't especially well-reviewed, but they were such populist powerhouses that voters couldn't overlook them in the best-picture race, and the leads of both movies went on to win the Oscar.
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Left tackle Alejandro Villaneuva showed up too, arriving with pen in hand to sign a contract extension that made the former Army Ranger a millionaire several times over as the protector of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's blind side for the rest of the decade.
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Back then, in the Nineties, it was no elbows in most Muay Thai fights in the UK. Outside of cheating on the blind side of the ref, and pub fights at closing time in London's East End, there wasn't much call for throwing them.
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If "The Passion of the Christ" showed that a mass audience existed for overt religious stories on screen, "The Blind Side," a 2009 family sports drama about a young black man taken in by a white family, showed the promise of less obvious storytelling.
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In the hands of director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks), The Founder — which deals with many of the same matters — plays like a dark comedy, with an end that can be read as tragic or triumphant, depending on who's telling the story.
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"Green Book" came into Toronto amid low expectations and emerged a ferocious crowd-pleaser: A racial-issues dramedy in the vein of "The Blind Side" and "Hidden Figures," the film stars Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali as mismatched personalities on a road trip through the Deep South.
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An article on Thursday about efforts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make its Oscar nominees more diverse misspelled the surname of an actor featured in "The Blind Side," a film about a homeless black teenager that was nominated for best picture in 2010.
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"The Blind Side" star -- who played the co-lead, Michael Oher, in the flick -- scared the crap out of people Tuesday when he posted a video of himself bedside in a hospital, saying he was gonna be alright ... but not disclosing what the heck was wrong with him.
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THE ARTS An article on Thursday about efforts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make its Oscar nominees more diverse misspelled the surname of an actor featured in "The Blind Side," a film about a homeless black teenager that was nominated for best picture in 8003.
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I like a car that allows you to share the fantasy (looks good enough to be "prestigious") but enjoy the reality of what it is really about — fuel economy (233 miles per gallon city, 13 mpg highway, regular grade okay); excellent safety (surround-vision camera, blind-side warning, lane-departure warning).
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That's true not just of "The Big Short" but also of "Moneyball" (my favorite of these adaptations ) and even "The Blind Side," which in book form was as much about the peculiarities of modern football as it was about the Southern-fried pluck of a woman later played by La Bullock gone blond.
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Burwell continued working with the Coens, but also scored films like Three Kings, The Blind Side, two films in the Twilight franchise and Where the Wild Things Are, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe, along with Karen O. In 2011, Burwell picked up a Primetime Emmy for his score of Mildred Pierce.
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The montage also included lines from Bad News Bears, Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, Bend It Like Beckham, Bring It On, The Karate Kid, Hoosiers, Space Jam, Raging Bull, Rudy, The Blind Side, Remember the Titans, Any Given Sunday, Chariots of Fire, Seabiscuit, Rocky I, II, III and IV and – for one brief, shining moment – High School Musical.
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These "white savior" storylines, in which a white person uses their privilege to prop up and "save" a marginalized community, have been prominently featured in recent decades in films like Freedom Writers, Radio, The Blind Side, Finding Forrester, and La La Land (sorry Ryan Gosling, but jazz music would have survived even without your charming smile).
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From calling out The Blind Side (the 2009 film starring Sandra Bullock that depicts an idealized transracial adoption story and for which Bullock was awarded an Oscar) to an awkward exchange between social worker Karen (Octavia Spencer) and Pete acknowledging the stigma of the "white savior complex," I found myself nodding in recognition throughout the screening.
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Fortunately film critics thought more of "The Blind Side" than Oher, who despite the subject matter could not give the feel-good sports drama two thumbs up, saying only "It was OK." The life of an NFL offensive lineman is one of anonymity unless they do something wrong, spent in the football trenches engaged in hand-to-hand combat protecting the team's biggest asset - the quarterback.
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" There have been plenty of stories about young black men and boys at white prep schools, whether in feature films (Gus Van Sant's 2000 drama, "Finding Forrester"; the 2009 inspirational tale "The Blind Side," starring Sandra Bullock), documentaries ("The Prep School Negro" from 20153; "Divided by Diversity" from 2016), television series (ABC's "black-ish") or music videos (Michael Jackson's "was that what that was about?
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A virtual driver's cockpit that digitally displays vehicle speed; blind-side monitoring and a top view camera system; dual-pane acoustic glass for front and side windows that support the soundproofing of a whisper-quiet interior; full-color head-up display and a 19-speaker Bang & Olufsen 3-D sound system (think Imax theater in a car) are all part of the Prestige package in the new SQ5.
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I know it sounds like a strange statement to make about someone whose fists were like granite and who liked to fight—even in the All-star Game against Mike Walton—and who would wait years to get even with a player before, in some cases, ending their careers with an elbow or blind-side hit or spear deep into the ribcage, but Gordie Howe was a nice man.
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The cockney trainers who barked like pit-bull dogs when you showed fear during sparring; the flat-nosed fellas with KO limbs from the council estates of Shepherd's Bush and Latimer Road; and the never-back-down gypsy kids from under the nearby Westway flyover, one of whom I elbowed, Thai style with a sok hud, on the blind side of the coach in the summer of 1991.
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He now will protect the blind side of Houston quarterback Deshaun Watson, who missed the second half of his rookie season in 2017 with a torn ACL, then suffered a bruised lung and injured ribs severe enough that the team bussed him to Jacksonville for a game last season rather than have him fly with the team over concerns of what changes in air pressure could have on his lungs.
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Just ask Angela Bassett, who turned down the role in "Monster's Ball" that won Halle Berry her best-actress statuette; or Julia Roberts, who spurned the plucky character in "The Blind Side" that cemented Sandra Bullock's place on the A-list; or John Travolta, who has admitted that it was a bad idea to turn up his nose at the lead in "Forrest Gump," which won Tom Hanks his second Oscar.
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