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...write a sentence, the basic unit of storytelling, and you are never sure where it will lead. The readers will not know where it leads either. Your adventure becomes theirs, eternally recapitulated in tandem--one wild ride together. Even when you come to the end of the sentence, that dot, it is still strangely inconclusive. I sometimes think one writes to find God in every sentence. But God (the ironist) always lives in the next sentence...
...reason I did that is I had wanted to do a movie about someone who was sort of lost in his own dimwittedness, in a way, tragically undereducated. If you look at the way American society is moving, at the top of the sandwich they're interested in dot-coms, and they're getting better educated all the time, and they will be able to be major participants in the coming explosion of wealth creation. And then there's the sort of bottom 50 percent who are woefully undereducated. I wanted to make a movie sympathetic to the situation...
...Suddenly everybody's a tech-stock bargain hunter as investors decided Tuesday they'd had enough of the blues and bought the NASDAQ up 177 points by the close. Cisco cleared its personal floor of $50 again, Oracle hit $34, and dot-commers Expedia and eToys got a few bonus points for losing less money than everybody expected. Is this the floor of floors...
...toward getting the girl. He uses his wishes to change himself in ways to make himself more appealing to the girl, being defeated by Satan at every turn, until he learns that he doesn't have to change himself to find love. For all its computer animation and dot-com references, Bedazzled feels fairly musty; it's the sort that you might take your grandmother to, if it weren't for the penis-size jokes and Elizabeth Hurley all dolled up like a two-dollar stripper...
Everywhere you turn the media tells us that the times have never been so good for young people. The younger generation has always thought they were smarter than their parents, but the phenomenal success of dot-coms headed by 27-year-olds who eschewed college has actually proved us right. Books like Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and Luxury Fever tell us that younger, educated classes are getting richer quicker than any before. Two years of I-banking and you're making serious six figures including bonuses. And if you don't want to "beat the Street...