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...about eight million to one, much lower than when I’m driving to the grocery store. Then again, the mortality rate of a plane crash, if one should be so unlucky, is pretty darn high—commercial airliners don’t get away with many fender-benders—and the state of the airline industry is reaching new lows. These facts taken together are rather disconcerting. With increasing competition from smaller airlines, many large companies are scaling back to save money. The question is, where are they scaling back? Now, we don?...
...with Johnny Depp replacing Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. In 1974, Burt Reynolds starred as the football-playing con in The Longest Yard; now he supports Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in their replay. And if your memory of Herbie, the Disney Love Bug, is as rusty as the fender of a '68 Volkswagen, strap yourself in (next to Lindsay Lohan) for Herbie: Fully Loaded...
...this is beyond common knowledge), and the mass-manufacture model which came into effect in the 1960s when it became clear that shipping 1,000,000 albums from one printing across the world was no longer science fiction—that model was never limited to albums. Leo Fender realized in the mid-fifties that, hey, he could take a block of wood and screw some hardware to it and kids in their garages in Peoria, Illinois could learn to play the guitar. And the effect? Today, so many people play the guitar, the bass, the keyboards, and so many...
...revered Mr. Bigweld (Mel Brooks), whose company has been subverted by his underlings' plan to phase out all old robots with the ad line "Why be you when you can be new?" Rodney's allies in the good fight include feisty young Piper (Amanda Bynes) and garrulous old Fender (Robin Williams...
...shoots for. The disc is a blend of American roots music, with all the weight that it suggests: it channels jazz, country and blues with a spare post-electric (but pre-rock and roll) feel. The disc features omnipresent Silvertone-esque guitars channeled through what sounds like fuzzy vintage Fender Frontman amps. With a couple of exceptions, the songs are written by Golightly herself but sound like they could have come from the likes of Patsy Cline, Hank Williams or Loretta Lynn...