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...effort to 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...
EUROPE Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson, on the European Union: "It's one of the few institutions we can develop as a balance to U.S. world domination." HIP-HOP Rap activist and former Public Enemy front man Chuck D, on hip-hop artists: "We have finally realized our collective power around the planet...
...music. 10,000 Hz Legend is a record that could never have been made in Britain or America. Although it occasionally nods politely in the direction of rock'n'roll, the album has clearly been produced by people for whom Claude Debussy will always remain more important than Chuck Berry...
...Elco also did gasoline motors, and eventually, during World War II, made PT boats, including John Kennedy's PT-109. The company went out of business after the war, was revived in 1988, and a few years ago was bought by Chuck Houghton, who now turns out electric boats (old design, new battery technology) in a small factory in Highland, New York, across the Hudson River from Poughkeepsie...
...Chuck Houghton who took me out the other day. A couple of years ago, I went through his factory and drooled a bit over the sleek Edwardian numbers, which have fiberglass hulls but are fitted out with the varnish and brass of the loveliest wooden boats. The boat we had on the river the other day was Elco's cheapest picnic model (well, cheap is relative, it costs $30,000 - think of it as a stripped-down SUV), but I drooled over that one as well - its elegance of design and motion through the water. More and more American lakes...