A Star-Studded Cast

《建国大业》

主要演员

按官方全明星海报从左到右顺序排列

* 唐国强 饰 毛泽东
* 张国立 饰 蒋介石
* 许 晴 饰 宋庆龄
* 刘 劲 饰 周恩来
* 陈 坤 饰 蒋经国
* 王学圻 饰 李宗仁
* 邬君梅 饰 宋美龄

客串演员

粗体字人名为电影海报中列出的联合主演

共产党方面人物

* 王伍福 饰 朱 德
* 刘 沙 饰 刘少奇
* 王 健 饰 任弼时
* 江 珊 饰 邓颖超
* 史 鑫 饰 邓小平
* 宗利群 饰 彭德怀
* 由立平 饰 林 彪
* 赵 雍 饰 贺 龙
* 侯 勇 饰 陈 赓
* 黄晓明 饰 李银桥（毛泽东的卫士长）
* 陈 好 饰 傅冬菊（傅作义的女儿）

国民党方面人物

* 尤 勇 饰 白崇禧
* 修宗迪 饰 傅作义
* 胡 军 饰 顾祝同
* 李 强 饰 陈 诚
* 李连杰 饰 陈绍宽（国民革命军海军一级上将）
* 刘德华 饰 俞济时
* 姜 文 饰 毛人凤
* 佟大为 饰 孔令侃
* 陈宝国 饰 周至柔（国民革命军空军一级上将）
* 刘仪伟 饰 李 璜
* 曹可凡 饰 吴国桢
* 黎 明 饰 蔡廷锴
* 陈道明 饰 阎锦文（国军起义将领）
* 陈凯歌 饰 冯玉祥

民主人士

* 甄子丹 饰 田 汉
* 邓 超 饰 徐悲鸿
* 毕彦君 饰 罗隆基
* 吴 刚 饰 闻一多
* 王 冰 饰 张 澜
* 金 鑫 饰 李济深

其他人物

* 冯小刚 饰 杜月笙
* 冯远征 饰 傅泾波（司徒雷登私人秘书）


无名、杜撰人物

* 章子怡、赵薇、苗圃、董璇、陈数、宁静、张秋芳、沈傲君、梁家辉、曾志伟、郭德纲、王雅捷、赵宝乐 饰 开会代表
* 赵宁宇、王学兵、王宝强 饰 解放军军人
* 龚蓓苾、何琳、杨若兮、车永莉 饰 女兵
* 范 伟 饰 毛泽东的厨师
* 葛 优 饰 解放军团长卢广声
* 成 龙 饰 采访李济深的记者
* 孙红雷 饰 《中央日报》记者胡立伟
* 刘 烨 饰 红军老兵
* 黄圣依 饰 共产党播音员
* 李幼斌 饰 报社社长
* 梁家辉 饰 解放军代表
* 连 晋 饰 周至柔副官
* 孙 兴 饰 副官
* 陶泽如 饰 唱票员
* 吴宇森 饰 国军军官
* 徐 帆 饰 宋庆龄的朋友

此外传说还有张涵予、梁朝伟、李雪健、赵本山等。

躬逢其盛

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/26lawyers.html?em

August 26, 2009

Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools

By GERRY SHIH

This fall, law students are competing for half as many openings at big firms as they were last year in what is shaping up to be the most wrenching job search season in over 50 years.

For students now, the promise of the big law firm career — and its paychecks — is slipping through their fingers, forcing them to look at lesser firms in smaller markets as well as opportunities in government or with public interest groups, law school faculty and students say.

The frenzy has even pushed the nation’s top firms, a tradition-bound coterie, into discussing how to reform the recruitment process with an earnestness that would have been unthinkable just years ago.

Even if the economy is beginning to pick up, the legal profession has been pummeled over the last year, with some firms closing and survivors often asking associates to take leaves of absence.

How bad is it? Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the juggernaut of New York, has slashed its hiring by more than half. For the first time in 136 years, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, a respected Philadelphia firm, has canceled its recruiting entirely. Global firms like DLA Piper and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe have postponed recruiting for several months to see if the market improves.

At Yale, students accustomed to being wooed by Big Law’s glittering names — like Baker & McKenzie; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, & McCloy; and White & Case — were stunned when those firms canceled interviews in New Haven this month.

New York University, Georgetown, Northwestern and other top universities confirm that interviews are down by a third to a half compared with a year ago, while lower-ranked schools are suffering more. What is more, when interviews finish in a few weeks, even fewer offers will be extended, said Howard L. Ellin, the chairman of global hiring at Skadden, Arps, because many firms are interviewing students for slots they may not fill.

After he lost his job as a television reporter two years ago, Derek Fanciullo considered law school, thinking it was a historically sure bet. He took out “a ferocious amount of debt,” he said — $210,000, to be exact — and enrolled last September in the School of Law at New York University.

“It was thought to be this green pasture of stability, a more comfortable life,” said Mr. Fanciullo, who had heard that 90 percent of N.Y.U. law graduates land jobs at firms, and counted on that to repay his loans. “It was almost written in stone that you’ll end up in a law firm, almost like a birthright.”

With the cost of law school skyrocketing over the years, the implicit arrangement between students and the most expensive and prestigious schools has only strengthened: the student takes on hefty debt to pay tuition, and the school issues the golden ticket to a job at a high-paying firm — if that’s what the student wants.

“Students came in with a certain sense of what the compact was going to be,” said Irene Dorzback, the assistant dean for career services at the New York University School of Law. But with the system crumbling in recent months, Ms. Dorzback said, “people are now accepting this notion of a lost year.”

The timing is worst for the class of 2011, the second-years now looking to get into firms, because of a unique logjam created last year. After the September financial crisis, firms chose to defer their new hires at the price of steeply cutting recruiting this year.

But students who miss the brief window of opportunity to land an offer this fall may struggle to break into firms once next year’s class rises. When Julia Figurelli, a second-year student at the University of Pennsylvania, decided to enter law school a year ago, she expected to find a lucrative law firm job in three years — if not collecting the $160,000-a-year associate salaries at one of the uppermost partnerships. By the time she obtains her J.D., she says, she will have around $200,000 in debt.

“Had I seen where the market was going, I would’ve gone to a lower-ranked but less expensive public school,” she said. “I’m questioning whether law school was the right choice at all.”

Once aiming to work in Philadelphia, Ms. Figurelli is now hunting for jobs in lower-paying markets, like Pittsburgh and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “I’m looking anywhere my competition isn’t looking,” she added.

School officials are pushing students to look beyond the white-shoe firms, to delve deep into alumni networks and to start mass letter-writing campaigns to potential employers. Like Ms. Figurelli, many students say that for the first time, they are considering and seeking work with government and public-interest groups.

The Social Security Administration, for example, said applications for lawyer positions and clerkships had more than doubled this year, to 2,000, from 800. The public-interest job fair at N.Y.U. this year was “packed to the gills,” Mr. Fanciullo recalled, but whereas in past years students had seven or eight interviews, some of his classmates this year had zero. “There’s a humongous trickle-down effect,” he said. “When the big firms don’t hire, everyone looks to government. And when those get filled up, then what happens?”

It has been a bizarre new reality, especially for elite schools. At Harvard, officials have had to hawk résumés or tell students, quite simply, to buck up. (“Now is not the time for avoidance, denial or panic,” Mark Weber, the assistant dean of career services, wrote in a March memo to Harvard Law’s graduating class.)

With the system’s frailties exposed by the recession, said Mr. Ellin from Skadden, Arps, the time could be ripe for “massive overhaul.”

Discussions at industry roundtables and casual talk among officials at leading schools and firms suggest a consensus that interview dates should be pushed back to the spring of the second year, if not the third year. The recent problems have arisen, reform-minded critics say, because the legal industry essentially hires two full years ahead of when employees begin to work. And because young lawyers have to be advanced by lockstep every year, it is difficult to make recruiting changes that are responsive to shocks in business.

“There’s a long list of issues that need re-examining,” said Ralph Baxter, the chairman of Orrick. “The current economic circumstances have helped people see the economic inefficiencies we’ve been living with.”

Even lockstep, as sacred a pillar of Big Law as the billable hour, has been undermined by the hiring headaches of the last year, some argue. Orrick and another major firm, Howrey, have introduced innovative programs for associates based on apprenticeships or tiered systems that depart from the traditional “up or out” partner-track models. Some industry observers say their moves represent first steps that may ultimately give firms greater flexibility in hiring.

“The situation is so dramatic it has freed them up to make changes that they wouldn’t otherwise,” said James G. Leipold, the executive director of the Association for Legal Career Professionals. “We’re going through a period of a surprising amount of experimentation.”

Not that any of those changes will come into effect soon enough to help the class of 2011.

On a recent Friday afternoon, Mr. Fanciullo sat at home waiting anxiously for his first callback after four days of interviews. Firms customarily called within 48 hours, he explained.

“You almost bank on the big firms hiring you because they’re really the only ones who can help you pay your debt,” he said, his mind already skipping forward to a situation he didn’t choose to articulate. “Quite frankly it would be an absolute disaster. I don’t know what I’d do.”

風城

也許芝加哥真的是一座風城，也許我真的有一半是風相的雙子座。總之，從芝加哥回來後每天至少產生三個博客靈感，和在匹茲堡的那年一樣。（當然，寫下來的時間是沒有的。）

通常的星座書關於地相（in my case, 金牛）和風相有這樣的說法：

“地相星座的人慎重、冷靜，對待感情真誠持久，做事也腳踏實地 ，但有時過於保守和自信心不強。風相星座的人思維發達，想像力豐富，有思想家的傾向，擅長社交，語言表達能力強，但…（省略負面評價）”

可能芝加哥涼爽的夏風又把我“思維發達，想象力豐富”的毛病給刮出來了吧。

──關於開學前的這幾次出行，以後慢慢敘，不急。