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...which he's not playing an anxious virgin will tell. The movie was a bad choice for him, given his résumé. But there are moments when you are surprised and delighted by his soft, subversive delivery and the way he's turned his distinctly non-Hollywood body into an asset. You think, There's no one quite like this kid (well, except for Jesse Eisenberg, who also dealt with the burden of virginity in Adventureland). And there is guile in François's eyes, which suggests that someday, Cera will indeed play a different kind...
...sides acquire new technology. The Ady Gil, a carbon-fiber ship worth about $1.5 million, has an uncanny resemblance to the Batmobile and holds the world record for circumnavigating the globe in only 61 days. Sea Shepherd was able to purchase the celebrated speedboat, previously called the Earthrace, after Hollywood businessman Ady Gil donated $1 million. Japan accuses its activist crew of shooting dangerous, high-powered lasers at its crews. Sea Shepherd, on the other hand, says the crew has been shot at with sonic guns and water cannon. Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd, even claims...
...country in other ways, not least in its temperate climate, which offers respite from the heat of the surrounding Namib Desert. And as Namibia has grown in stature as a safari destination, so Swakopmund, relatively undeveloped and off the beaten track until the 1970s, has quietly blossomed. Hollywood has even made an appearance: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh was born there in 2006, and the city is a location for the current U.S. remake of the 1960s British television series The Prisoner. Here are five of its main attractions. (See the best travel gadgets...
...offered studios a take-it-or-leave-it deal on his world-ending 2012. Some turned it down; Sony bought it, on Emmerich's terms. In less than two months the picture has earned nearly $750 million worldwide, and Emmerich stands to pocket $100 million - proving once more that Hollywood is the art of the deal...
...this for Avatar: it has passion and ambition and a daffy, almost heroic, dead seriousness. Which is to say it's one megabudget Hollywood epic that feels as if it was made by a human, not assembled by cyborgs. Maybe some of the folks paying inflated prices for the 3-D IMAXed Avatar are doing so out of social obligation to see what they've heard the rest of the world is seeing. But what they're getting is a personal vision. Not a religious experience; rather a mass hallucination - an elevated, persuasive fiction, a thing that...