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...others, they portray a particular kind of social contract as well. There is a great deal of talk of community in the small-town neighborhood sense and almost none in the national sense. They emphasize recipients' faith, their positivity, their unwillingness to blame others. Hardships are a result of fate, not cutbacks or social priorities. No one wonders why people in a rich nation forgo college or surgery. The solutions to problems are entirely private (in exchange for product placement) and local. It's federalist...
...smiling Pring-Wilson, donning ankle shackles with his pressed suit, strolled into court to hear lawyers squabble over his fate last week...
...office where his father used to hold court. "My father didn't want a political dynasty. What I would like to do is work in politics for three or four years, establish a real party and then just step down." But gradually he is warming to the role that fate has delivered him. When he appeared at a recent Beirut campaign rally, he practically had to be dragged out of his seat to read a speech to supporters. But at the end of the rally he leaped onto a chair to blow kisses to the well-wishers. "Saad! Saad! Saad...
Giamatti is flattered. "But I don't buy it," he says. In Hollywood face is fate, and with thinning hair, crooked teeth and no chin, Giamatti knows that his mug will almost always be cast in the service of actors with cheekbones. Unlike some of his rage-filled characters, he carries no visible resentment about that. Sitting in a café in Prague (where he is shooting The Illusionist, supporting Edward Norton and Jessica Biel), Giamatti announces, "You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. Seriously. When you profile someone, there has to be a narrative...
...vision, but he fails to see that limitations inspire creativity. The original three Star Wars films are abundant proof of that. Lucas should realize that none of the special effects in the most recent trilogy look real. The lack of popular respect for those movies is a fitting fate for a failed idea. Daniel Fetherston New York City...