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...Nemo is a find-your-inner-grownup story. For a decade, Stanton was pleased to assist--as writer and co-director--the charismatic Lasseter, who created the first Pixar shorts and masterminded the art of CGI storytelling. "We all think John is the best thing since sliced bread," he avers, "and we'll follow his lead anywhere." But Stanton honed and hoarded his Nemo idea before pitching it to his Pixar pals. "Part of it was ego," he acknowledges. "Here I am making these movies with these four or five guys. After a while I didn't know what part...
Madrid is a city full of single-lane roads, crowded cafés and neighborhood bread shops. Some streets are devoted almost entirely to shoe stores, others to books or electronics or trendy club wear. On Sundays, in a tradition dating back 500 years, the entire Rastro neighborhood becomes a vast outdoor flea market, where shoppers can get anything from a rug to a kitchen set to an automobile wheel. So does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting...
...laments the lack of a hero in her own family: her dad never went to prison, not once! But soon her uncle is released from jail and regales her with stories of suffering. She sleeps with the swan that he fashioned out of bread in his cell. During the day, she and her friends make up "torture games" to play in the street. But within days, her uncle is taken back to prison and executed. The family friend is found drowned in his bathtub. Satrapi's non-religious French school is shut down and she is sent...
...around are dirt poor, strewn with garbage and stinking of the raw sewage that floods their streets. The local people are "crazy and illiterate," said the engineer Mehdi. Some of the radioactive material was even apparently encased in some 30lbs of metal, seems to have been used to roll bread, U.S. officials say. The favorite use of the barrels was for drinking water. Since the buy back operation and the health warnings that accompanied it, local people have begun to complain of tender skin and other ailments. These could be real or psychosomatic. But villagers have no doubt who will...
...comparable to those at Fairway, and fruit was carefully packaged to avoid damage. The delivery guy arrived right on time (deliveries are in 2-hr. slots from 4 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends), but several eggs were broken, and the bread was frozen. First-time shoppers get $50 worth of free groceries, and the $3.95 delivery fee is waived for your first three orders...