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...Together David and Joe travel through garish landscapes that, as imagined by artist Chris Baker (who was on the project in the early years) and production designer Rick Carter, handsomely evoke every sci-fi dystopia from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange to Blade Runner and this year's Monkeybone. Come to the Flesh Fair--a sort of Thunderdome demolition derby where vengeful humans, led by the demagogic Lord Johnson-Johnson (Ireland's Brendan Gleeson), set hapless automatons aflame--and try to get out fast. Spend the night in Rouge City, a city of sensual schlock that is filled with Kubrick...
...with the presidential campaigns of Michael Dukakis and of Vice President George Bush. With the Dukakis campaign, I felt as if I was watching high school football - fumbles, missed blocks, lost luggage, half-filled auditoriums, adolescent amateurism. The Bush campaign, on the other hand, was professional football: clickity-click clockwork, perfect timing, glitzy graphics, all the legacy of Mike Deaver image-control and perfectionism...
...look no different from their neighbors at first glance, but what about the strange antennas on the roofs, the international phone lines and the transient occupants with unkempt hair, camouflage jackets and hiking boots? And what of those unmarked four-wheel-drive vehicles pulling up at dawn with clockwork precision? Here is an inside look at how Pakistan runs its covert war in Kashmir...
...scientists who use high-tech tools to nab crooks. The show has a certain Vegas-y rock-'n'-roll sleaze appeal, but underneath it all, CSI is the geek Quincy, in which the true stars are the nail clippings, computer records, carpet fibers and above all DNA, performing like clockwork the same magic that they didn't on Simpson...
...They just don't want this movie to portray all the good things they've done," Daley said about the real league's players and volunteer coaches. Public schools CEO Paul Vallas questioned why so many adolescent extras weren't in class, and branded the film "the Clockwork Orange version of The Bad News Bears." The producers couldn't have pitched it better themselves...