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...while teenagers in menacing face-paint take shifts as lookouts around the property, ready to battle the cops with tribal dance and felt costumes, the tree-dwellers are on their cell phones (charged by a solar-paneled, bio-diesel fueled truck parked outside) battling on several fronts. Since most of the farmers are Latinos who don't actually live right near the farm, and because the largely African-American neighborhood is the only area in Los Angeles to have lost jobs since 1992, the locals are on Horowitz's side: they'd rather raze the farm and build a warehouse...
Until he saw the light, Jon Taggart--6 ft. 5 in., jeans, white cowboy hat, Texas twang--was a rancher like any other in the southern Great Plains. He crowded his cattle onto pasture sprayed with weed killers and fertilizers. When they were half grown, he shipped them in diesel-fueled trucks to huge feedlots. There they were stuffed with corn and soy--pesticide treated, of course--and implanted with synthetic hormones to make them grow faster. To prevent disease, they were given antibiotics. They were trucked again to slaughterhouses, butchered and shrink-wrapped for far-flung supermarkets...
...saying that his ouster "doesn't make sense logically." Although he didn't make the cut on Idol, Daughtry has already been fielding job offers, including the front-man gig for the band Fuel. Meanwhile, bald guys lost their best hope for a macho sex symbol since Vin Diesel. Has anyone checked the Hair Club for Men's phone records...
...costs of rescuing illegals from the desert. Schools everywhere here are poor, overcrowded and growing. Truck traffic is good for your business but bad for your health; many border cities routinely fail to meet federal air-quality standards. Border agents get sick from standing on the bridges and inhaling diesel exhaust...
...past month that is set in New York City and involves some sort of criminal activity, and all are smart and entertaining: 16 Blocks, also starring Willis, as an alcoholic cop trying to get a witness to safety; Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty, in which Vin Diesel's mobster acts as his own defense lawyer; and Spike Lee's skillfully orchestrated story of a bank heist, Inside Man. None of them require the audience to embrace heavy-duty fantasy or comic-romantic fatuity. They have grit, wit and style, plus a semblance of reality--things popular American movies regularly...