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...could go on - pseudo-scientific investigations of Klaatu that produce more glop than useful information, a failure even to reference the earlier film's famous catch phrase ("Klaatu Barada Nickto," which essentially means, "Cool it, Gort" and which was on every 12-year-old's lips a little more than a half century ago), a cross-species romance between Klaatu and an earth woman (Jennifer Connelly) that was once rather touching and now registers somewhere between fatuous and nonexistent. But why bother? Suffice it to say that these morons have, quite simply, turned The Day the Earth Stood Still...
...Indeed, a Liza Minnelli concert is never about musicality so much as it is about the psychodrama of watching show biz's most famous high-wire act try to make it to curtain call without a visit from the EMS unit. Even the minimal choreography - lots of arm thrusts and quick marches across the stage - seems to wear her out. In between songs, she gasps for air and grabs for her bottle of Gatorade as if she were an NFL cornerback returning to the bench after a 60-yard interception return. Halfway through the 2 1/2-hr. concert, she pulls...
...this list, J. M. Coetzee is the youngest—and the most melancholy. In his famous 1999 novel “Disgrace,” he showed the late-life education of a literature professor forced, in a post-literate age, to teach “Communications.” He returned to the theme in his more recent novel—it was released on Dec. 27, 2007, to avoid end-of-the-year-list mania on the blogs—“Diary of a Bad Year.” More humane and generous than...
...addition to the license-for-money scandal, Ryan had exchanged government favors for family vacations, tickets to events and other gifts. He is currently serving a six-year prison sentence in Indiana. In 2005, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his most famous act as governor: commuting the death sentences of over 160 Illinois inmates...
...biggest controversy Jackson had to deal with involved his sudden weight loss; after persistent press reports and questions, he admitted that he had undergone stomach stapling to lose more than 50 lb. His most serious challenge, however, has been to establish a political identity for himself separate from his famous father. Earlier this year, he publicly criticized his father after the elder Jackson made a crude comment about Obama that was caught by a TV camera. Even during Wednesday's press conference, the younger Jackson tried to distinguish himself from his father, saying it was Obama who inspired...