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...plane, car and bungee cord completing challenges. Amazing has slick, Survivor-like production values, Lost a rawer, made-for-cable feel. But both, by forcing contestants to interact with the natives, prove that loosing Americans to inflict their geographic and cultural ignorance on the world is a guaranteed hoot (as when a Lost contestant insists that Cyrillic script "looks like Israeli"). Never mind "The tribe has spoken"; this season's big reality-TV catchphrase will be, "Do you speak English...
...evidence of naked greed on Wall Street is, and long has been, as plain as the words spilling from bankers' mouths. Bear Stearns boss Ace Greenberg once said he didn't give a hoot about job applicants' education so long as they had "a deep desire to become rich." Donald Trump opined that "you can't be too greedy." Who can forget the greed-is-good speech from the felon Ivan Boesky, memorialized in the 1987 movie Wall Street...
...roll your eyes at the ceiling and hoot like Limbaugh: Ah, the terrors of life in a prosperous, powerful, peacetime society! In a nation rich enough to be morally incoherent and given to media vapors, language inclines to hysteria. Murder ball? Killer ball? Really? People with no experience to teach them otherwise are dumb enough, self-indulgent enough, to equate recess with the intifada...
...marching-band music, baton twirling, ballet, Ed Sullivan novelty act, Blue Man Group-style performance art and a few other things that escape me at the moment. The individual elements are familiar, but the amalgam is something totally original. The drum soloists are dazzling; the unicycling trombone player a hoot; and I don?t know about you, but when I see a dozen performers toss batons 30 feet into the air and catch them at precisely the same instant a foot from the ground, I?m pretty darn impressed. "Blast" probably belongs more in a Las Vegas showroom than...
...center of all this hoopla seems not to give a hoot about its reception. Or at least he is trying to appear not to. Hopkins can be a volatile guy, but he usually keeps his temper under control. "It's a bit of a gamble doing a sequel," he says, making the understatement one morning as he sits at the kitchen table in his Pacific Palisades, Calif., home with eclectic art on the walls and a sprawling view of the ocean. "I don't want to think about it. I learn my lines, show up, make sure the check...