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...them, The Science of Sleep, stars a major-minor international star - the very attractive Gael Garcia Bernal - and is directed by the annoyingly twee Michel Gondry, who somehow won a screenwriting Oscar for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in 2005, not to mention the hearts of audiences who forgave his vertiginous descents into near-terminal cuteness because the movie's imagery has a certain freshness...
...What went wrong? Patricio Bernal, executive secretary of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee, says the response to the Java tsunami actually represented a success for the interim warning system?and in a sense, he's right. Just 17 minutes after the earthquake struck off the coast of Java, scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii crunched the seismological data and sent a bulletin to colleagues in Jakarta, warning of the possibility of a local tsunami for land within 100 km of the temblor's epicenter. In the 2004 tsunami, those simple lines of communication did not exist...
...with her husband Richard (Pitt). Because the couple cannot be at home in San Diego with their two young children, the kids' nanny Amelia (Adriana Barraza) takes them to her home village in Mexico for her son's wedding. Their driver is her nephew, Santiago (Gabriel García Bernal), a punk with...
...Bernal is famous now, in a way, but it's a new kind of fame, courtesy of a new medium. Viral videos are only a few minutes or even a few seconds long, and they're generally amateur in execution and wildly eclectic in subject matter. Browse one of the websites that hosts them, like YouTube or Google Video, and you'll see drunken karaoke, babies being born, plane crashes, burping contests, freakish sports accidents and far, far stranger things. The one thing they have in common is that people can't stop watching them...
...what about David Bernal, a.k.a. David Elsewhere? He's living the viral dream. Since that night in 2001, he has danced in commercials for 7-Eleven, Heineken, Pepsi and Apple's iPod. He has shown his stuff on Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel and Steve Harvey. He did a Volkswagen ad that consists entirely of his gloriously funky reinterpretation of Gene Kelly's classic Singin' in the Rain routine. He even did a cameo in You Got Served. "The choreographer had seen [the video] and wanted me to be in the movie," Bernal says. "That's usually how it works...