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...from Ferrell fatigue and near-libelous reviews, there's another explanation for Land of the Lost's becoming the season's first pricey roadkill. After Night at the Museum 2 and Up, it was the third consecutive action comedy with at least one prehistoric beast. In two weeks, Jack Black and Michael Cera will play the dino-comedy card again with Year One. Sony, the film's distributor, might want to reposition Year One's marketing to emphasize its pedigree as a Judd Apatow comedy (from which The Hangover was clearly spawned), and to sell the primitive wilderness that Black...
...Over a million people, about one-sixth of the colony's population, took to the streets hours after the crackdown. They shouted "Down with Li Peng," naming China's then Premier as responsible for the killings. Entire buildings were draped in black flags. Office workers were given lists of random fax numbers in China and asked to transmit newspaper clippings of events, news of Tiananmen having been suppressed in China itself. Slow-driving protest convoys of motor vehicles took to the streets at night. Wild rumors flew around - one held that Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, a student sympathizer...
...Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola; in theaters 6/11) Members of an Italian family fight and unite, but this ain't The Godfather. The glorious black-and-white imagery can't rescue Coppola's film from a fatal case of dramatic inertia...
Affirmative action has been a revolution in American rights and in our ideas of citizenship. To judge from almost all polls and referendums over the past few decades, it is reliably unpopular. Judges prop it up. Since the election of the first black President, it has been a shoe waiting to drop. The rationale it rests on - that minorities are cut off from fair access to positions of influence in society - has been undermined, to put it mildly. Elevating a hard-line defender of affirmative action is thus a provocation in a way that it would not have been...
...looks into the audience for the 72 virgins he was promised as a martyr, and they are either ugly or men. Nor is Achmed the only one of Dunham's workmates exploring the outer edges of taste. In the regular rotation are Hispanic José Jalapeño, grumpy old Walter, black "manager" Sweet Daddy Dee, redneck Bubba J, and Peanut, the bad kid. All of them are politically incorrect, gratuitously insulting and ill tempered...