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...iron," the girl reappears, reaching out her hand to a uniformed arm. While the ad was produced well before the Governor flunked that geopolitics pop quiz, it clearly reflects a central campaign concern: that Bush might be seen as a lightweight, a silver-spoon child of privilege without the heft to deal with the presidency. The disturbing images, the edgy music in a minor key, the unsettling language aim at one point: No mindless frat boy here...
...technology that gave us Babe and countless taco commercials to create a stunning live-action version (TNT, Oct. 3, 8 p.m.). The challenge in bringing Animal Farm to life is not creating verisimilitude--there never will be a realistic talking donkey--but giving cuddly animals noble and historic heft. The film does so with a wisely chosen cast of voices (Ian Holm stands out as smarmy pig propagandist Squealer) and eerie visuals, from the crudely painted ANIMAL FARM sign at the commune's entrance to the pigs' grisly show trials. You'll have a hard time setting a rattrap after...
What seems to be a single memory is actually a complex construction. Think of a hammer, and your brain hurriedly retrieves the tool's name, its appearance, its function, its heft and the sound of its clang, each extracted from a different region of the brain. Fail to connect a person's name with his or her face, and you experience the breakdown of that assembly process that many of us begin to experience in our 20s--and that becomes downright worrisome when we reach...
...whole set has a nice mix of gravity--heft, seriousness--and buoyancy. It's the declaration of a survivor who sings what's important to her without sweating the consequences. As she sings in Can't Lose Them All, "I could go down in history, or I could go up in smoke/ Be the center of attention or the butt of every joke." Glimmer should put Richey at the center of attention. And if she makes more albums like this one, she could make a little music history...
...thinks of giants from the giant's point of view, but it's not easy being big. One is aware of the menace one poses as he stomps about. Dad wants to be a benevolent despot, but he has all that heft, and sometimes he crashes into the china. "Pop! Pop!" cries Keye Luke, the No. 1 son in the Charlie Chan movies. His incompetence is funny, but he is really desperate to please the All-Wise, All-Wisecracking round Titan in the white suit, who is sometimes the detective and sometimes the crime...