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...incredible image: Natasha Patterson, a 13-year-old from Marin County, rests her chest on the stage, her elbows under her chin, as her legs - it's painful for me even to type this - Walk in a Circle Around Her. The audience gasps in a mixture of wonder and horror; it's not that the body can't do this, it's that the body maybe oughtn't. Whatever the crowd reaction, the maneuver is nonetheless spectacular. (You can see the entire routine here on Youtube; Patterson's big moment comes about 4 min. 45 sec. into the clip...
...second-to-last movie; I considered Nemesis just posthumous galvanic twitching) and the uneven last series, Enterprise. Now an 11th Trek film is nearly upon us - it opens May 8 and is helmed by J.J. Abrams, the unstoppable force behind Alias and Lost - and I'm torn between horror, that someone is defibrillating the beloved corpse of Trek one more time, and, in spite of all my better instincts, hope...
...answer may be pulled from the three figures about the economy which have the most bearing on how whether recession is beginning to reverse or not. The first is access to credit. To the horror of members of Congress and the governors of the Fed, The Wall Street Journal came out with an analysis showing that the banks which received TARP funds are lending less now than they were before the facility was created as the handiwork of Henry Paulson...
...Raeburn, who has just released Triomf, a bleak examination of a poor Johannesburg family - who happen to be white. "There's suddenly a sense in South Africa that we don't have to make films only about truth and reconciliation," says Raeburn. "We can make romantic comedies, gay movies, horror movies - anything we like. There's a real energy out there. It's a real creative moment...
...sashimi on the island. The décor probably hasn't changed since the 1980s, but scenery is immaterial when it comes to the straight-from-the-line fish and variety of live sea creatures in the window tanks. The mantis prawns may look like monsters from a horror film, but the taste - finer than any lobster - is worth the fright...