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...Once Upon a Time in the West. Tarantino sprinkles the sound track of Basterds with eight pieces by longtime Leone composer Ennio Morricone and begins with a title card telling us that the story is set "Once upon a time ... in Occupied France." (See TIME's review of Pulp Fiction...
...this sweet fantasy out into a 2½-hr., four-language epic. Receiving its world premiere on May 20 at the Cannes Film Festival, Inglourious Basterds - first word as in "glower," second as in "turds" - is an alternative history of World War II from the writer-director of Pulp Fiction, the Palme d'Or winner 15 years ago. As with all of his recent work - the two Kill Bill movies and Death Proof - Basterds draws portraits of strong women facing down evil men; and in Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) and Third Reich screen star Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger...
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...embedded expenses are hard to pare. What are you going to do, buy a smaller house tomorrow? The trick is to see through the fiction that certain costs are "fixed." The typical family spends $1,303 a year on electricity; by simply unplugging appliances when you're not using them, you can shave 5% to 10% off that bill. And when was the last time you shopped for cheaper car insurance? It's an expense that's out of sight most of the year but a significant chunk of what we spend...
...paperback has some passages that were not in the original, including those about a guy who has tapes of phone calls with a talk-show host who has given him a hard time, which has led to speculation that Frey has audiotapes of Oprah. ("The book is fiction," was all Frey had to say on the subject...