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...Pentagon is also purchasing extra jet and diesel fuel, much of which is being stockpiled overseas, in quantities not seen since the Gulf War. American allies could help, as they did during the Gulf War, by releasing part of their industry and government petroleum stockpiles. Even the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is doing its part: heavyweights such as Saudi Arabia have opened the taps, helping America fill the reserve's salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana with crude. U.S. oil prices, meanwhile, have fallen 15% since late September, to around $26.50 per bbl. --By Adam Zagorin/Washington
...effort: GoldenEye, a high-tech, high-speed 1995 hit that proved 007 could compete with the big-bang action pictures while keeping some of his cheeky, retro spirit. Since then, the competition has only got brasher and more explosive, with plenty of pretenders to the throne--most recently, Vin Diesel's XXX, a postmodern grunge Bond who traded in his tux for tattoos. Says XXX director Rob Cohen: Bond "never learns anything ... He doesn't do much of anything except be titanium and eternally stuck in a time capsule...
...being marketed as a Roberto Benigni film ... Roberto wants what's best for the people in each territory." There's some darkness to Pinocchio, he admits finally, "and the question is how to edit those scenes without impacting the integrity of the movie." In the age of Vin Diesel, do children really need to be protected from Pinocchio? "The notion of trying to shield children from violence is pernicious," says Richard Wunderlich, co-author with Thomas J. Morrissey of the recently published cultural study, Pinocchio Goes Postmodern (Routledge; 257 pages). "In Italy the church fathers were once concerned that Pinocchio...
...being marketed as a Roberto Benigni film ... Roberto wants what's best for the people in each territory." There's some darkness to Pinocchio, he admits finally, "and the question is how to edit those scenes without impacting the integrity of the movie." In the age of Vin Diesel, do children really need to be protected from Pinocchio? "The notion of trying to shield children from violence is pernicious," says Richard Wunderlich, co-author with Thomas J. Morrissey of the recently published cultural study, Pinocchio Goes Postmodern (Routledge; 257 pages). "In Italy the church fathers were once concerned that Pinocchio...
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