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...Given the richness of the gangster genre, with so many previous visions and sound tracks, how did you approach the challenge of making your own mark with Public Enemies...
...best character in the third Ice Age is a shameless rip-off of one of the most tried and true characters in recent cinematic history. Given the rest of the franchise, the limited creativity is not surprising. But what's really frustrating about the movie is how little attention it pays to its youthful audience. Beyond the cliff-teetering physical comedy, which always works - the acorn-loving squirrel Scrat returns, reminding us of the joys of old-fashioned voiceless animation - there is barely anything here that's really meant for kids...
...similar plans introduced since 2002 that have outlined compensation for people exposed to the blasts. All of those previous plans eventually petered out. This time, Morin has minimized the number of victims he says will be covered by his bill as "several hundred" - an optimistic estimation, experts say, given the 150,000 people that independent studies calculate were exposed in various degrees to the explosions. (Read "French Doubts Up After Nuke Mishaps...
...Given enough time - and pressure - that too may change. Veterans' groups intensively scrutinized the bill as it was being drafted and as a result won considerable concessions, including the shift of the burden of proof from the claimant to the government: now the state will have to prove radiation wasn't the cause of illness if it wants to avoid paying compensation, rather than victims having to establish the contrary before their claims are recognized. But Marhic says the proposal is still too restrictive on whom it will accept as sufficiently radiated by tests to apply for compensation...
...British High Court ruling earlier this month has already given around 1,000 veterans of the country's nuclear testing program the go-ahead to sue the government for radiation-linked illnesses. However, any of those cases that may eventually triumph in court will take years to hear and presumably even longer to wind through the appeals process - a stall tactic that French veterans have long accused France of employing. But with French nuclear-testing victims finally having some success in getting their state to do the right thing, their British peers might just pick up some useful tactics...