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...will beguile some viewers, perplex others. Its vision is too capacious, its narrative route too extended, the shift in tone (from suburban domestic to rural nightmare to urban archaeology) too ornery to make the film a flat-out wowser of the E.T. stripe. A.I. boasts a beautiful central performance - Haley Joel Osment, 13, plays David with a kind of buoyant gravity - and a canny turn by Jude Law as a robo-stud, while other actors are wan. The film is bold, rigorous and sentimental by turns, and often all at once, as should be expected from a two-man movie...
...HALEY BARBOUR Ex-R.N.C. head to lead fund raising for Senate G.O.P. Can start by selling J. Jeffords punching bags...
...Veep's guest list are some of the party's most prolific fund raisers, including lobbyists for the coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear and utility industries. Rick Shelby of the American Gas Association, who raised or gave $250,000, is invited, as is former Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour, who lobbies for the huge coal-based utility Southern Co. and the firm of Cassidy & Associates, whose clients include Exxon, Texaco and Pennzoil. It's a stretch to link their fund raising and the Bush Administration's energy plan, but the timing is a p.r. nightmare: the Vice President breaking bread...
DIED. JAMES MYERS, 81, co-writer of Rock Around the Clock (1954), heralded as the granddaddy of all rock-'n'-roll tunes; in Fort Myers, Fla. He estimated that he made $10 million in royalties for that one song, recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets, which stayed at No. 1 for eight weeks and sold 22 million copies...
DIED. JACK HALEY JR., 67, Emmy Award-winning director as well as producer and prolific documentarian who directed the 1974 star-studded That's Entertainment; in Santa Monica, Calif. Haley, whose father played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, was married five years to Liza Minnelli...