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...vast numbers of people to Clowes' pessimistic universe of the lummoxes, schlubs, and dorks who made the Wendy's foodchain possible and who write "comix" review columns on "the web." Some may even wonder if by making a film the creators are implicitly entering the very universe of mass-cult they rail against in the picture. Fear not. Unlike those shrill, hard-sell teen comedies on the other screens, "Ghost World" never becomes the kind of empty, defensive snark-fest that it targets. Clowes and Zwigoff keep the organic pace of the original, and its empathic exploration of painfully changing...
...months last winter, Phillips and friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese eat dogs, and dog farms import the frozen sperm of St. Bernards to breed quick-growing canine roasters. Beijing officials were certain that Swiss visitors would protest at seeing their rescue...
...same time, just as the VCR turned moviegoers into home cineasts, video and DVD releases of old TV shows promise to create a generation of videasts. And it's not just a handful of hits that benefit. Rhino Home Video, for instance, offers cult classics ranging from Chris Elliott's slacker sitcom Get a Life to the trippy '60s kids' show H.R. Pufnstuf (the DVD versions offer videophile gimmicks like being able to turn off Life's laugh track). This is a material world: if you convert an evanescent work into something tangible, shelvable, revisitable and Christmas-giftable, we respect...
...months last year, Phillips and friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese eat dogs, and dog farms import the frozen sperm of St. Bernards to breed quick-growing canine roasters. Beijing officials were certain that Swiss visitors would protest at seeing their rescue...
...pumped-up Mini debuts July 7 in Britain and cruises into Continental showrooms in September. BMW has high hopes for the ex-cult favorite, now manufactured at a state-of-the-art assembly plant outside Oxford, England. But analysts wonder if the 100,000 to 125,000 Minis that BMW plans to manufacture each year and sell for roughly $14,000 will ultimately justify the $325 million investment the Bavarian carmaker has sunk into the project. "The big question is: Will they ever turn a reasonable profit?" says Jim Collins, automotive analyst at UBS Warburg...