Word: dexter
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...Kenobi) meets a naughty one (Count Dooku, incarnated by Christopher Lee). Joseph Campbell might have got a kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious care. As for the actors, they're on their own, and it shows...
Clones is populated with hundreds of computer-generated creatures, from new digital stars like the four-armed diner chef Dexter Jettster to familiars like Yoda, Watto the Junkman--and that vexing critter Jar Jar Binks, around whom the disappointment in Phantom Menace crystallized. Lucas blames the anti-Jar Jar sentiment on "37-year-old guys who spend all their time on the Internet. But you have to remember that when we did The Empire Strikes Back, some people hated C-3PO. When we did Jedi, they just loathed the Ewoks. There was no Internet to jazz it up, but there...
...action when action is needed—and action is always needed. In short, I consider it Summers’ duty as president to challenge undergraduates and the rest of the University to use the many opportunities available here to heed, in their own fashion, the words inscribed on Dexter Gate: “Go forth to serve thy country and thy kind...
...principled leader who does what she thinks is right. But at the same time she bears the image of an arrogant prosecutor who often made wrong or inept moves in cases like Waco and Elian. "The Republicans will absolutely crucify her with negative ads," says prominent Florida attorney Dexter Douglass, who helped lead Al Gore's Tallahassee legal team during the presidential recount...
...plot is strictly B movie: a young samurai is teleported by the evil wizard Aku to the distant future. So is the dialogue ("With the power of this sword, I will vanquish Aku!"). But even nonaction fans will be wowed by the art. Creator Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory) raids the history of illustration, art and cinema with the gusto of a kid playing in an attic. He gleefully cobbles past, present and future into a supercool fantasy of classical Japanese art, Hanna-Barbera, expressionism, anime, '60s film and '50s modernism, just for starters. (His dystopian future city looks like...