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...ourselves-in an age where children are brainwashed on a regular basis by the hollow spectacle of Pokemon, a family film bursting with imagination like Spy Kids is welcome and desperately needed relief (See Spot Run? God help us all). Rodriguez's screenplay may verge dangerously close to vapidity from time to time, but its honest-to-goodness heart cannot be denied. And there's a certain pleasure to be had in watching the film's duo of precocious youngsters-Vega comes with the kind of tough-cutie charms that suggest she could develop a real edge as an actress...
...rate "Gladiator" for shelflessness? A little higher than is comfortable for a Best Picture, I would say. Russell Crowe is one of those actors who is interesting to watch, but, gaudy decapitations aside, "Gladiator" advances unapologetically from cliché to cliché (the "Spartacus"-meets-"Sleepy Hollow" note, the British Romans, the decadent incestuous homoerotic touches dragged in from "Spartacus," "Quo Vadis" and elsewhere) and on the video shelf, is never going to be more than routine escapist entertainment defaulted to when you can't find something else. Same with "Titanic" two years ago. The winner this year should have...
...course, it was too good to be true. Under pressure from coal lobbyists and Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush reversed course and claimed that his original position was an "error." Given the intense scrutiny given to presidential platforms, that excuse rings hollow...
...fear of discrimination in school or in the workplace--even the danger of brutal physical attack. But how can far more complicated issues, like same-sex marriage or non-discrimination laws, be addressed without first reaching consensus on the foundations? Statements that we are "past" these issues ring hollow when so many Americans--whose opinions and votes matter--vocally disagree. The only way to change their minds is to join, not move beyond, the morality debate...
...stay or leave? It was a question Hawaneen, a hollow-cheeked Afghan with a wispy beard, had debated with his elders for many weeks, while the famine--the worst in 30 years--tightened its grip on the village. Would they stand a better chance of survival if they remained? Or should they wander elsewhere until they found help? After a three-year drought, every village well had run dry, and the goats and sheep had died. Finally Hawaneen decided it was time to go; he had fed his family the last grains of wheat he had intended to plant this...