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...distant past as members of the French Resistance a Hollywood producer wants to turn into a film. This is an expression of Godard's distrust of Steven Spielberg and his film Schindler's List. "Mrs. Schindler was never paid," one character notes. "She's living in poverty in Argentina." Ah, that Godard: he is always serious, always impish. He lives up to his own maxim: "Every thought should show the debris of a smile." Elogie shows that smile as Godard's own: the rictus of the wise old ghost of modernist cinema...
...TIME: Does China understand what's happening in Taiwan? Chen: The PRC doesn't understand Taiwan, it doesn't understand the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and it doesn't understand Ah-Bian (Chen's nickname) personally. The PRC has made two major mistakes. First, it thought that my administration would soon topple. Ah-bian will not fall and will certainly complete the four-year term. Second, the PRC thinks that talking to this administration directly would be giving credit to Ah-Bian and the DPP. But actually the resumption of meaningful and constructive dialogue would not only credit Taiwan...
...Ah, but we're being catty. After the somewhat shamefaced presentations of NBC and ABC, here finally was a major network with something to really be happy about. Thanks to "Survivor," the network has not only handed Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow's butts to them, but it's become, in the repeated words of the execs on stage at Carnegie Hall, "younger and more affluent." In other words, more successful by the same standards that, a couple years ago, the network with the oldest audience in network TV said were bogus and unfair. Back then, at the home...
...roll your eyes at the ceiling and hoot like Limbaugh: Ah, the terrors of life in a prosperous, powerful, peacetime society! In a nation rich enough to be morally incoherent and given to media vapors, language inclines to hysteria. Murder ball? Killer ball? Really? People with no experience to teach them otherwise are dumb enough, self-indulgent enough, to equate recess with the intifada...
...Ah, who am I kidding? Bring on the gaudy Babylon...