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Eddie Murphy will head to the moon this month for a serious rescue mission. He must save Pluto Nash, a movie in danger of collapsing under its own inertia. Nash, a sci-fi comedy featuring Murphy as a lunar-nightclub owner, wrapped a year ago, and was originally scheduled for an April 6 release by Warner Bros.' Castle Rock division. Then it was bumped to the fall. Now it's consigned to the wintry abyss of Jan. 18. Maybe. Producer Martin Bregman (The Bone Collector), who's had Nash in development for 20 years, blames the delay on getting...
...thought" to a bolstered observer presence to "soften the phase shift" once NATO pulls out. But no one really believes the N.L.A. is going to fade into the hills, however many guns it hands over in the coming month. Ten years in the Balkans have regrettably demonstrated the stubborn inertia of armed conflict. Just as in Bosnia and Kosovo, NATO could find the potential cost of leaving higher than that of sticking around...
...face of it, Thiebaud, 81, is a Realist. He loves material fact, with a preference for inertia. He started off in the 1960s painting gorgeously lush still lifes of kitsch diner food--everything from hot dogs to angel-food cake and gumballs. Then he turned to painting people, or rather embalming them in his characteristic thick, smooth and (when used to make flesh) slightly rubbery pigment. After moving to San Francisco in the early '70s, he took his eye outside and did cityscapes--those strange, plunging perspectives of the hills and highways of the city, translated into gravity-defying slices...
...more balanced approach means looking not just at the risks of change but also at the potential benefits and the cost of inertia. For example, 40 countries are not on track to meet the UN Millennium Goal of halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger by 2015. Twenty-one of those countries are in sub-Saharan Africa...
...cost of this tax cut will come home to roost in the out-years. Government will have to borrow to spend or add new taxes to get out of the mess brought about by brainless political inertia. RAND KNOX San Rafael, Calif...