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...America and the world so mental about it? I was just in Japan, but when I first went there in February, the people who went to the fan events there were mainly people who went to American schools. This time it was an entirely Japanese audience. No one could really speak English, but they reacted in the same way as they have around the world. Even the distributor was saying, Japanese audiences don't react like this. And they were stunned by the whole thing...
True, he'd already made one iconic teen movie. But Twilight fans were initially shocked when American Pie director Chris Weitz was handed the reins for New Moon. TIME spoke with Weitz about his immersion in the Twilight world, dealing with Internet rumors and winning over the fans in the run-up to New Moon's Nov. 20 release...
...were in a tough spot taking over Twilight, not only as a guy, but the guy who directed American Pie. How did you deal with that?There was a reasonable amount of skepticism when I took over the second movie. I understand that. I directed American Pie. I would be worried too. I tried not to take it personally. I just tried to reassure the fans as much as I could, I even wrote a letter. The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read...
...China, meanwhile, it is fashionable to blame U.S. trade deficits on the debt-addicted ways of American citizens and their government. There's an element of truth to this too. If the U.S. borrowed and spent less, its trade imbalances would be smaller. But China has been enabling this profligate behavior for years by buying trillions of dollars in U.S. government debt and mortgage securities as part of its continuing effort to - you got it - keep the yuan from appreciating too much against the dollar...
...municipalities, it's been good, but it raises some political-economy questions," says Vincent Reinhart, a resident scholar at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute and a former top Federal Reserve economist. "This might encourage even more expansion of government borrowing...