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...said you're only one hit away from success. DreamWorks has high hopes for Bee Movie, with Jerry Seinfeld, and Shrek 3, both due out in 2007. But by then, Fox, Sony and Disney all plan to be bigger computer-animation players. With so much clutter, DreamWorks' dream may be deferred again...
This Debonair, martini-swilling socialite wasn't "the thin man." (That guy was a victim in the original Dashiell Hammett novel.) But Nick was the cool socialite, solving homicides as if they were Times crosswords. Nick and his wife Nora (and their terrier Asta) were a dream family to a Depression audience in need of blithe fantasy. In six movies from 1934 to '47 (out on DVD next month), William Powell was a kind of F.D.R. of crime fiction and Myrna Loy was the suavest, most gracious wife ever...
...futurist Philip Marlowe, Deckard (Harrison Ford) is assigned to round up some replicants--superrobots who can feel as well as think--in Ridley Scott's brilliant 1982 visualization of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Set in 2019, the film doesn't allow Deckard the brains or heroism of the traditional detective, but it does let him fall in love with a beautiful female robot (Sean Young). Neo-Nick, meet android Nora. --By Richard Corliss
...true Rove didn't tell Cooper her name but rather referred to her as Wilson's wife. On the other hand, a simple Google search of Ambassador Wilson turned up her name but not her affiliation. The evolving explanation of Rove's role was enough to let Democrats dream that they might have snared him at long last, while Republicans retorted that, far from incriminating Rove, the latest evidence exonerated...
...editors," she says, "but there are very few jobs in those fields posted here." While a few freeters may land fantasy jobs someday, Masahiro Yamada, a professor of sociology at Tokyo Gakugei University, is worried about the larger picture. "Freeters may choose the lifestyle at first, chasing a dream," he says. "But many will find themselves in middle age still chasing the dream." And he thinks the long-term effects are going to be disastrous for Japan's economy and social fabric. "If the trend continues for another decade, the anxiety will be realized in the form of social...