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...Chung Mong Koo, Chairman of South Korea's Hyundai Motor, carefully scrutinizes a newly designed gearshift lever for the automaker's Sonata sedan while his entire senior-management team hovers around, anxiously awaiting his approval. The execs are justifiably edgy. Engineers added a plastic plate beneath the shifter to prevent spilled coffee and other flotsam from falling into the mechanism and gumming...
...these stoned tableaux are lightened by intrusions of real-world comedy: the visit of a Yellow Pages ad salesman to a stoned Blake; the door-to-door missionary zeal of two young Mormons. Ricky Jay provides a few moments of irrelevant coherence with his story of a magician named Chung Ling Su. But these interludes can't bring Last Days to life. The film is so studied and self-conscious that the audience can never concentrate on Blake; it can only watch the camera watching...
...Staff writer Ben B. Chung can be reached at bchung@fas.harvard.edu
...Staff writer Ben B. Chung can be reached at bchung@fas.harvard.edu
...episode in the first show that best illustrates the philosophy behind American Almanac deals with long-term changes in the country's weather (outlook over the next few decades: a temperature rise between 3° and 7°). In another segment, Connie Chung explores how some prospective parents try to select the sex of their babies through laboratory tinkering. Yet an episode about Bijan, whose snooty clothing stores in Beverly Hills and New York City are open to clients by appointment only, is a puff job that Mudd gamely but unsuccessfully tries to tie in to Americans' desire to be distinct...