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...movie about making movies, "Tom DiCillo's 'Oblivion' pleasantly surprises with its cunning, and by not surrendering to ego and ennui," saysRichard Corliss. This independent movie is about the filming of exactly three shots in an indie movie. "Everything goes hilariously wrong," chuckles Corliss. The boom mike dips into the frame. The idiot movie star unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist -- "imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman." It's a funny film, acted with a deft, manic touch...
...hall, newly constructed grayish buildings can be seen spattered across a nearby hillside; at the town's outer limits, the wooden skeletons of half-built houses are strewed along the landscape. In five years, Parker's population has doubled, to 10,000. Last February local voters reacted to the boom by passing one of the toughest antigrowth initiatives in the U.S., a measure requiring a unanimous vote of the town council before any new areas can be added to the town. "The people are alarmed," says Lopez. "They were tired of seeing earthmovers on Main Street. We're besieged...
Well, if smart people didn't do stupid things, there wouldn't be horror movies. And for those who indulge its inanities, this 2-D alien encounter has some final surprises, including its own baby boom. Watch out, folks. Sil has a baby. Boom...
...economy, all got hit with this big tax bill in April. So they were all writing checks to the federal government instead of buying new cars." McWhirter says all the signs point to a slow growth of two to three percent into the next year. "It's not a boom, but it's not a blowout either, and thegovernment seems to be satisfied with that...
YOUR WARNING THAT AMERICA AND China "could come to see each other as enemies" [Diplomacy, June 5] is, I fear, a fact. The centuries-old psychology of confronting the West traces its roots to deep within the Chinese culture. With China's economic boom, particularly, the long-suppressed sense of superiority again finds easy justification. The Middle Kingdom expects the rest of the world to admire it, not the other way around. That is why I am so surprised to hear some experts talk of the U.S.'s avoiding Beijing's suspicion while it also thinks it can "improve China...