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...Zheng Yangs in a single city, and Wangs and Zhengs alone account for 160 million people, or more than live in Britain, France and Spain combined. The 20th anniversary of Star Wars is the 20th anniversary of celebrating heroes called R2D2 and C-3PO (who can make even HAL sound human...
...hear too many platitudes: "It's everybody's story. An American story." The mournful piping and fiddle playing from Burns' previous films have returned--but why? Lewis' life ended sadly, but what does such plaintive music have to do with this daring, ultimately triumphant mission? As the narrator, Hal Holbrook strikes the same note of puny nostalgia. Even the scenery, while wonderful to look at, is often shot too delicately. Where's the sense of adventure, the wildness, the smell of buffalo grease? This is a story we want Jack London to tell us, but we get M. Scott Peck...
Holland does acknowledge a few consistent sources of inspiration in contemporary cinema--Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Gus Van Sant, and "in Europe, just tons of them"--but the voice she is most interested in following...
...their lawyers. Boulder, for all its academic eminence as the site of a University of Colorado campus and its reputation as a refuge for dropouts, is very much a small town where "all the lawyers are friends," says a retired judge. The Ramseys' legal team is headed by Hal Haddon--and if Hunter is a midsize fish in Colorado Democratic politics, Haddon is a whale. He was a close adviser to former Senator Gary Hart and a strong ally of Governor Roy Romer...
...their natural appeal shine through. This can come in handy in tight spots. Ronald Reagan's undoubted insouciance helped him escape blame for the unconventional accounting practices of Oliver North. John F. Kennedy's sense of ironic detachment--common to rich kids since the time of Prince Hal--allowed him to slip out from under the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs. And Franklin Roosevelt's inborn aristocratic bearing led his public to assume during the Depression that he knew what he was doing, even when he didn't, which was often...