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...Oliveira carries a cane, but he uses it less for support than as a jaunty prop -twirling it, pointing it at the cheering audience - till you expect him to break into a song-and-dance routine. The cane might be a tribute to his first cinema idol, the dapper French comic Max Linder, who influenced Charlie Chaplin, Oliveira's second idol. In the audience, clearly buoyed by the old man's energy, were other distinguished directors: Cannes Jury President Sean Penn, Marjane Satrapi of Persepolis and a young pup named Clint Eastwood, who will...
...Crystal Skull is intended, and works effectively, as instant nostalgia - a class reunion of the old gang who in the '80s reinvigorated the classic action film with such expertise and brio. So don't expect the freshness of the what-one-man-can-do plot in Iron Man, or the oneiric visuals of Speed Racer. Spielberg and Lucas, and screenwriters David Koepp and Jeff Nathanson, are looking not forward but back, to the first three films. They know that moviegoers would be disappointed not to see the talismans of Indys past reappear here. Shall we itemize...
...which goes into lockdown when VIPs land or takeoff. Since no dust storms were grounding flights, anyone traveling could have assumed some American bigwig was heading in. But when local TV reported the visitor was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, there was a collective shrug of the kind you might expect from Republicans catching a glimpse of her somewhere in McCain country...
...imagine someone working very hard to not branch out very much, but I don’t think that will be the norm,” he said. “If, as I expect, it’ll be one in 300, I’m just not going to worry about...
...success with blatant disregard for environmental implications, exploiting resources and emitting carbon dioxide at rates that placed the world in its current binding predicament starting during the Industrial Revolution. As China and India now undergo periods of rapid growth and approach huge upswings in development, it is unrealistic to expect them to forego economic gain in order to protect the environment. Certainly, the issue of fairness needs to be considered in coming up with a plausible solution...