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...Universes within universes - the interdependency of all living things everywhere - is Geisel's theme in Horton. In the Jungle of Nool something foreign lands on a piece of clover. It's not a spaceship but an entire alien world: the nearly infinitesimal planet of Who-ville. Horton the elephant, his large ears giving him the most acute hearing, detects cries from the clover speck. He can't see the little Whos, but he deduces, believes, knows that sentient creatures are in there; and his caring instinct tells him that they must be protected. He builds a rapport with the tiny...
...strike Jokes, at least, have died down. David Letterman?back on the air with his writers after making a separate deal with the Writers Guild?has moved on to wisecracks about the Clover-field monster and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Jay Leno, who has returned sans scribes but is supposedly writing the monologues himself (angering the Guild, which claims he's violating strike rules by doing so), is pummeling viewers with the usual rat-a-tat of gags playing off the headlines, from the presidential primaries to funny animal news...
Wilson, a graduate of Yale University and a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, leaves his wife Clover (Angelina Jolie) and newborn child for Europe in 1939, only to return six years later after forever damaging their marriage. Over the next two decades, Wilson works covertly to build the infrastructure that will eventually become the operating CIA at the expense of his family, and perhaps his own humanity...
Unfortunately for Jolie, her role is vastly underwritten. While we see Wilson engaging in various extramarital affairs, it is only alluded that Clover herself was unfaithful during his six years abroad. Jolie does, however, handle her small part with tight-lipped control—a beautiful housewife denied access to her husband...
...rides over a mélange of island rhythms, bossa nova and folky acoustics, mostly in new songs she has co-written. They go down as easily as frozen margaritas, never more beguilingly than when she slips in scat syllables like "dit-doo, die-yah-da-doo" in Four Leaf Clover, or simply "ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh" in Cold to Colder...