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...perhaps, you detect the tramping of sour grapes. To read a piece about online reviewers by a critic who has done most of his work in print is to hear the roar of a dinosaur, noisy but anachronistic, trying to drown out a freeway full of SUV?s. And I admit this: I share your cynicism. General-interest magazines like TIME have reduced the space devoted to reviews and expand their entertainment "news" coverage. The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill. That?s why many...
...that the ice caps will melt, the seas will rise and drown the coasts - not coincidentally, where Al Gore picked up most of his votes...
Humans are much more dangerous to sharks, which tend to end up in soup or medicine. Fishing nets tangle and drown about 100 million sharks each year. In California there is only one shark attack for every 1 million surfing days, according to the Surfrider Foundation. You are 30 times as likely to be killed by lightning. Poorly wired Christmas trees claim more victims than sharks, according to Australian researchers. And dogs--man's best friends--bite many thousands more people than sharks...
...thing about Bruckheimer that won't change. "My biggest thrill is when I sit in a theater and watch people laugh and cry and cheer," he says. "You start with a little idea and make it happen and watch it explode." Pearl Harbor may be loud enough to drown out the critics...
...teen movie: Cameron Diaz using man-made hair gel, Tom Green molesting an elephant and lots of jokes about testicles. No surprise that the audience, more and more, is keeping its distance from youth-oriented flicks unless they are of the action-adventure variety, with plenty of noise to drown out the script. Perhaps that is part of the reason Hollywood is trying to improve on the genre with Crazy/Beautiful--a romantic drama starring Kirsten Dunst as a rich, white high school senior rebelling against her limousine-liberal father and falling in love with a Latino jock from the wrong side...