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When it comes to the corruption of our pop culture, everyone talks about Eminem and Li'l Kim and Limp Bizkit. Nobody talks about the fact that every year, according to The New York Times, Americans spend $4 billion buying or renting pornographic videos. Or the fact that the 8.7 million subscribers to DirecTV buy nearly $200 million in pay-per-view adult entertainment, while one in five of AT&T 's broadband cable customers plop down 10 bucks a film to watch "real, live all-American sex--not simulated by actors." Or the fact that almost half...
...swear I don't get Limp Bizkit (right). "Chocolate starfish" is the kind of phrase that's only funny when...
...time rather than pay a few dollars each to buy them from companies like Pegasus. But pattern pirates are on the loose on the Internet, and the middle-age crafts crowd has begun to demonstrate the same deeply held sense of entitlement felt by 17-year-old Limp Bizkit fans downloading free MP3 tunes. When Hedgepath challenged the piracy of one outfit, brazenly named PatternPiggies, the online postings in response were downright defiant. Shouted one user: "Ladies, this is war, and I'm out for blood...
...relations between these two peoples beamed around the world Sunday: A terrified Aldura doing everything in his power to shrink his slender frame behind that of his cowering father, whose pleas for Israeli soldiers to cease fire are answered with a fusillade of bullets, leaving the boy's limp body in the lap of his badly wounded father. The power of that image may come to symbolize the bitterness of the battle for sovereignty over Jerusalem's holiest hill - because whether in Hebron or Gaza, the narrow streets of Jerusalem of even dusty Israeli-Arab towns such as Nazareth...
...that wasn't even as enjoyable as the first Mission: Impossible. What happened? Well, you can start with the fact that Robert Towne, the man wrote Chinatown for God's sake, was apparently uninspired to do anything more with the screenplay than rip off Notorious and throw in a limp virus thriller. Then you can blame Tom Cruise, who, despite his rogue's haircut, is stuck in extra-bland mode as superagent Ethan Hunt (when the Cruise mask is ripped off in the opening sequence, I was praying Chow Yun-Fat and his charisma would be underneath...