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...movie, already a hit at the Toronto Film Festival, honors and expands the old formula. The townsfolk are preparing for the Giant Vegetable Competition held each year by Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter). To allay the villagers' fears that their supersize tomatoes and zucchini may be ravaged by rabbits, Wallace invents a gizmo that captures the critters without hurting them--much to the disapproval of Lady T.'s slimy suitor, Victor Quartermaine (a perfectly pompous Ralph Fiennes), who would rather blast the bunnies to bits. Soon the locals have a larger, more vicious threat: the mysterious, vegemaniacal Were-Rabbit...
...nature itself seems mortally wounded as well. The 30-mile strip of houses, farms and schools has been transformed into a sump filled with fetid water. Groves of orange trees lie half submerged near Triumph. In Empire, almost 1 million gallons of oil have broken out of a giant Chevron storage tank, coating the levees and seeping into the marshland. A herd of cows staggers ankle deep through greasy waters in Venice. A few miles north, horses graze amid dead fish and the hulks of beached shrimp trawlers...
...production amid the neo-Baroque grandeur of the Paris Opera (Palais Garnier, Place de l'Opéra), where prices start as low as 7 euros. The Baccarat Gallery-Museum (11, Place des Etats-Unis) displays all sorts of glittering goodies, such as Czar Nicholas II's custom-ordered giant candelabra, crystal thrones created for India's maharajas and dessert plates made for Coco Chanel, complete with etchings of delicate scissors. Skaters can cut the ice with the locals at the Hotel de Ville (blades rent for 5 euros...
...visit the Samsung Experience store in New York City--or, soon, if you open up a Samsung Electronics package or pamphlet--you may catch a whiff. The new eau de electronics, named Intimate Blue to evoke Samsung's cobalt blue logo, is part of a drive by the Korean giant to develop a sensory identity, including a new signature sound, a string of cheery notes. "It's all about subliminal experience," says Paul Kim, a marketing manager at Samsung Electronics America...
...first one I asked myself with respect to my stepsister is: Why didn't we know this sooner? Why do we keep putting new drugs on the market, promote them like crazy, get everybody excited, sell billions of dollars worth, and then find out that they're not the giant step forward we'd hoped for? Isn't the Food and Drug Administration obliged to find out this stuff in the approval process...