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...being transfixed by a skiffle band called the Quarry Men. Paul happened to have brought his guitar and impressed the band's leader, a cocky lad named Lennon, with raucous renderings of Eddie Cochran and Little Richard songs. That's the big cosmic moment, but in official Beatles lore there's an even earlier bit of predestiny. It is 1955, and George Harrison, just 12, is a miserable student putting in an hour's commute on his dad's bus, traveling from the family home in Speke to the Liverpool Institute. He is engaged in conversation...
...being transfixed by a skiffle band called the Quarry Men. Paul happened to have brought his guitar and impressed the band's leader, a cocky lad named Lennon, with raucous renderings of Eddie Cochran and Little Richard songs. That's the big cosmic moment, but in official Beatles lore there's an even earlier bit of predestiny. It is 1955, and George Harrison, just 12, is a miserable student putting in an hour's commute on his dad's bus, traveling from the family home in Speke to the Liverpool Institute. He is engaged in conversation...
...alone. Our universe is but one of many, and many of those other universes contain our counterparts, our mirror twins. And when one of those counterparts dies, his soul energy is divided among the survivors, making them that much stronger, smarter and faster. In order to preserve the cosmic balance, a special Multiverse Agency protects against unauthorized travel to different worlds. But one agent, Yulaw, has gone rogue, tunneling to the other universes and murdering his counterparts in a bid to collect all the energies within himself and become the immortal One. The only surviving twin is a Los Angeles...
...doesn't want to go all cosmic about an agreeably funny, well-made comedy designed for nothing grander than relief from the August heat. But still, one can't help noticing that what energy is left in mainstream American moviemaking these days is concentrated in lowball comedy. Action movies like The Score are tired and talky. Romantic comedy like America's Sweethearts is as flat as yesterday's bottled water. And judging by The Others, even ghosts are turning into gormless dinner guests who have outstayed their welcome. Only the very occasional nut case, like Rat Race, has conviction...
Dingy. Deluged. Decrepit. The International Arrivals Building at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport was so rundown by the 1990s that arriving passengers, not a few of them escaping wretched Third World environments, probably wondered if they had made some cosmic mistake. The IAB was the crown jewel of jet-set travel when it opened in what was then Idlewild Airport in 1957, but three decades later, the country's most important global gateway was one of the worst. Experienced flyers preferred Newark. In New Jersey...