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...control in Hollywood these days is that people tend to forget that moviemaking is essentially like a magic trick-you don't really need to saw the lady in half. Take the scene in Spy Kids where the robotic Carmen and Juni run up the wall, do the flip, and land on their feet. How would you film that...
...keep Mike’s writings in a folder in my desk, and every so often I pull them out and flip through their now-tattered and dog-eared pages. Each time, I am impressed by the brilliance and clarity of his voice and saddened by his premature demise. We have lost Mike and the great things he would undoubtedly have achieved. This is the incalculable, incomprehensible cost of a world that teaches people to be normal or to be silent...
...hardly surprising Beijing hasn't rushed to hand over a U.S. spy plane and its 24-man crew involved in a mid-air collision with a Chinese air force fighter on Sunday. To understand why, flip the script for a moment: Imagine a Chinese plane flying a surveillance mission off the Florida coast colliding with an Air Force F-16 sent on an aggressive monitoring mission. The U.S. fighter goes down and the pilot is lost; the Chinese plane is forced to land on U.S. soil. The incident occurs at a moment when China is about to supply a package...
...interpret this as Napster getting religion right before the courts flip the switch on the electric chair." ROBERT SCHWARTZ, American lawyer, on the song-swapping company's pledge to block access to copyrighted music after an adverse legal ruling
...fact, this is probably how Bush should have sold his CO2 flip-flop - as a crisis-induced, temporary delay until the skies clear a little (no pun intended) - and it's how a big tax cut can make everybody, from Armey to Bush to Gephardt, look like they're actually reading the financial pages instead of just skimming over the headlines and moving on with their own ideological agenda...