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...blame Johnny Depp for getting me into this," says director Terry Gilliam about his current chaotic shoot. It's for the movie of Hunter S. Thompson's equally chaotic book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Not that Gilliam, known for such movies as Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 Monkeys, doesn't want to make the film, which stars Depp as Thompson's alter ego, the pharmacological adventurer Raoul Duke. It's just that he's not sure he wants to do it this way. "Tony Grisoni and I wrote the script in eight days, but we didn't like...
...ground control, however, this is old hat. "We've had such situations earlier," said Mission Control chief Vladimir Solovyov, who admitted that the result of the "chaotic flight" was hard to predict. "They're trained to deal with such consequences," he said...
Perhaps the hope was always an illusion. After the Siamese-twin government replaced the Vietnamese-installed regime, the chaotic and corrupt new administration accomplished almost nothing except to set up Ranariddh and Hun Sen as competing warlords. The situation became increasingly unstable when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the other pocket of Cambodian power for 19 years, started to fall apart last year in its hidden jungle exile. First Prime Minister Ranariddh, son of venerable King Sihanouk, started negotiations with the disintegrating guerrilla group, offering jobs in his army, which was far smaller than Second Prime Minister...
More recently, Lemmon's portrayal of a New York City executive searching for his son in a chaotic Latin American country in Missing, earned him another best-actor award, at Cannes. Lemmon was the first man to win this award twice at the annual international festival...
...basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body's different systems--cardiovascular, reproductive and so on--work together in a seemingly chaotic but balanced harmony. The flaws of the human miracle are the diseases that attack these systems. As Nuland sees it, the surgeon's role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy. Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book's vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts...