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...inspirational The Blind Side broke $250 million; Valentine's Day topped $100 million; and Dear John and Percy Jackson hit $75 million. Jeff Bridges' Crazy Heart, the one "indie" drama to reap box-office benefits from Oscar buzz, stayed in the top 10 and is grazing $30 million - not bad for a movie with a $9 million budget that was originally to be denied a theatrical release and go straight to DVD. (See the top 10 Oscar nomination snubs...
Cotel hopes that Avatar - already the biggest-grossing film in history - will become a "landmark for younger viewers," as the environmentally friendly Bambi might have been for their parents. But for all the talk of Avatar's nature-is-good-and-corporate-greed-is-bad message, it's probably fair to say that viewers like the movie because it's a feat of technology, not of political will. (And also because they probably liked the film the first time around, as Dances With Wolves or Pocahontas.) (See more about Avatar at Techland.com...
...Cheadle is intensely watchable - when isn't he? - but I'm not sure Tango could really have maintained his cover all those years. He's always discouraging violence or telling youngsters in the projects to go to college. The only time Cheadle convinced me Tango might be capable of bad things was when he lunged at Ellen Barkin, who plays the sadistic top brass in the police department. She is always fully clothed, which may explain why Tango calls her "Dude." She's wretched and he gets a laugh, but it's worth noting that only sainted wives...
...UNEP initiative called The Economics of Ecosystems and Diversity (TEEB), says that currently "the economic value attached to nature is zero. Our metrics are geared toward consumption and production of man-made goods and services, and we tend to gloss over nature." This, he says, has led to "bad accounting" which, in turn, has contributed to rapid biodiversity loss...
...ethnic and sectarian groups. The duopolistic ruling parties of Iraqi Kurdistan find themselves under threat from a breakaway movement - Goran, or "change" - more interested in cleaning up politics in the Kurdistan Regional Government than in accelerating Kurdish autonomy from the rest of Iraq. And there's been plenty of bad blood between al-Maliki and the fundamentalist Shi'ite parties of the Iraqi National Alliance ever since the Prime Minister sent the army to put down Muqtada al-Sadr's militia in Basra...