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...Martin being pursued by a convoy of nasty cars on the hairpin turns of a mountain road outside Siena, Italy. Doesn't matter if the bad guys have enough artillery to stock a Third World uprising; Bond's superior driving skills, and the series' reluctance to kill off its hero in the first reel, make him the victor and survivor. At one point on that narrow winding stretch he negotiates a 360-degree turn, maybe a 720 - with all the flashy editing it's hard to tell - and makes his way safely to a hideout where his boss M (Judi...
...underdogs, hasn't the stature of a Dr. No or a Salamanca, but he's got the evil sneer down pat. Bond girl: 9 - Olga Kurylenko is more than OK. Fight scenes: 9 - frenetic, if familiar. And Bond - 7: Craig certainly fills the frame of a modern, wounded action hero; but, just once or twice, could he, and this mostly knuckle-cracking, often crackerjack film, crack a smile...
...know that karaoke supposedly accounts for 1 out of every 4 consumer dollars spent on music worldwide? And the trend is only just catching on in the U.S., thanks to the popularity of hip video-game karaoke clones like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. My home karaoke bar will go much further, naturally, offering lots more songs (and maybe beer to minors). The trick is to keep my costs low, which won't be too difficult considering that many free, or cheap, karaoke sites have recently popped up online - Quittner's Qaraoke Qorner could be a bustling home business...
MICHAEL PHELPS, A-ROD, KOBE, TONY HAWK star in pantless Guitar Hero...
...Dukakis riding the tank was supposed to show that he was a manly man for the military, not just a liberal Massachusetts sissy. George W. Bush’s frequent photographs in a cowboy hat tapped into the US’s cultural myth of the cowboy as a hero, as resourceful, as protecting, as the archetypal compassionate conservative. Sarah Palin needs no framing. She herself is the symbol. She is the photo-op. She was tapped for the ticket, not because of anything she has done necessarily, but in large part for how she looks and what she represents...