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...keep topping itself, Hollywood is taking time-tested crowd pleasers-namely, talking animals-further and further into the digital realm. Dr. Dolittle 2, in which Eddie Murphy talks to computerized critters, will still be in theaters when Cats & Dogs, a whiz-bang homage to Chuck Jones and James Bond, enters the fray. "We have to deliver images that audiences have never seen before," says Cats & Dogs' director Lawrence Guterman. "It has to be funny-otherwise there's no movie-but at the same time you have to deliver something new." That effort has gone on for two years, since Guterman...
...nurses. In five years, he says, "probably two-thirds of British households will be online." If a government website lets expectant parents, say, book their medical appointments, compare prices for childcare in their area, learn about programs for kids with special needs and sign up for the new "baby bond," "these are all step-changes in service that people will notice" - as long as the local school gets a new roof too. As banks, airlines and other big companies increasingly lavish the most attention on the most profitable customers, Mulgan thinks, "in five years, the government could be outperforming...
...definitely miss being able to play with her," said Magnuson. "We had an odd bond that I've never had before and everyone seemed to notice...
...which won't go away until investors ration capital properly. "Anything that deters consolidation is a long-term negative for tech," says Richard Bernstein, a strategist at Merrill Lynch. He notes that telecom companies, in which overcapacity is greatest, have been sucking up 30% of proceeds from stock and bond sales this year; energy firms, just 25%--a frightful misallocation...
...Cannes did have one film with the true scent of romantic obsession: Yonfan's Peony Pavilion. Again we meet two women who forge a deep friendship, and a man who tests that bond. This film, though, is so saturated in the sad glamour of their love that style becomes substance. The moving camera, the gorgeous homes and gardens of Suzhou, the handsome people with complex urges?they all seem to swoon in the telling of a story about Jade (radiant Japanese star Rie Miyazawa), a Kunqu Opera singer who marries into a noble house and falls into a near-lesbian...