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Like Audrey Hepburn on the back of Gregory Peck's Vespa in Roman Holiday, Harry has enjoyed a whistle-stop tour of how commoners live - and die. He shared his flight back to England with two critically wounded soldiers. He admits he may be "a bullet magnet," a prize scalp for enemy forces and terrorists. Yet Harry has tasted something akin to ordinary life and he's eager for more. "It's bizarre," he mused in an interview recorded during his tour of duty. "I'm out here now, haven't really had a shower for four days, haven...
...waning days of 2007, as the Washington political set scurried to get out of town for holiday vacations, Martin bulldozed through a dramatic relaxation of the cross-ownership rules that ensure a diversity of voices in our local media markets. Now, local media moguls can buy both a television station and the major newspaper in the local market. And because people of color and women are more likely to be single-station owners, they are especially susceptible to local consolidation efforts...
...fractured fairy tale. For the film's first (and best) few minutes, we are in the storybook realm of such deformed superheroes as Pinocchio, Cyrano de Bergerac and Edward Scissorhands. But the movie soon cozies into the princess-in-hiding genre that spawned It Happened One Night, Roman Holiday and dozens more. Penelope has been locked away at home, where her fretting, frittery parents (Catherine O'Hara and Richard T. Grant) parade a retinue of potential husbands, all of whom are nauseated at the sight of her. Finally, in an attempt to define herself as something other than That Rich...
...Valentine’s Day is in the middle of February so that anyone without a date will freeze to death,” he quipped. “How Darwinian.” His dry, somewhat misanthropic sarcasm provided a refreshing contrast to the otherwise sappy holiday. As with any indie show, tight jeans and black plastic glasses were omnipresent. In this case, however, they were worn almost entirely by older (read: post-collegiate) people. This is partially because the Magnetic Fields have been around since the mid-nineties, but it also seems to be a function...
...American trend that seems perfectly summed up by Staples’ “Easy Button” commercials. More and more, we relax and rely on the technology around us to perform tasks that used to be an integral part of getting out and being human.During the 2006 holiday season media blitz, I remember one network’s coverage of the Nintendo Wii. The anchors were testing the product and going nuts over it: “Look! When you swing the Wii remote, the tennis racket actually swings! And there?...