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Among the 455 hours of film unspooled in the 10-day bash known as the Toronto International Film Festival was a new Stephen Frears picture called Dirty Pretty Things. A smart film and an even cannier title, because it defines the lure of movies: that they show people doing dirty pretty things. And the lure of Toronto is that it's a clean town with a pretty fine festival - the busiest and most influential in North America. Last year, Toronto was not so festive. The suicide bombers of Sept. 11 severed the convocation in half: five days of illuminating...
...keep Slipknot's eponymous major-label debut from going platinum. In addition to courting publicity by defecating onstage and engaging in mild acts of violence with concertgoers, Slipknot has catered to rap-metal fans by mixing turntables and a sampler into its burlesque of drums and distorted guitar. Cannier still is the band's use of costumes at a time when metal is dominated by average dudes in sweatshirts. The band's macabre looks, like its hyperbolic lyrics, suggest the teenage alienation it sings about is a horror on par with the evils depicted in slasher pics--which...
...debates. Stabenow, 50, who had previously served in the state legislature for 16 years, starting at age 28, campaigned most vigorously on prescription-drug benefits for the elderly. For months, the Abraham campaign flooded Michigan voters with ads calling Stabenow a prescription for disaster. But Stabenow had a cannier vote-getting strategy: she sponsored bus tours for senior citizens, dubbed the Stabenow Rx Express, across the border into Canada to buy medications at cheap rates, a gimmick employed by Democratic candidates along the northern border states...
...succeeded not only because he had a great story to tell; other war heroes, from Bob Kerrey to Bob Dole, have failed to transfer the luster of their medals to the grimy battle for the presidency. Is McCain, who insists that he is no hero, just cannier and more ruthless about marketing his heroism? Or was he born with instincts, which prison sharpened, for seizing advantage and riding it as far as it might take him? "No one will work harder," says McCain, as if that will be enough...
...N.R.A. president Charlton Heston had a cannier sense of public relations, he would knock himself out campaigning to stop the sale of semiautomatic weapons, ban armor-piercing bullets and do all possible to keep firearms away from criminals, children and psychotics. He would legitimize his own case by pre-empting the best ideas of the other side...