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...hear. So they sent in the CIA, who duck-taped this man from head to toe, stuffed him in a small, plywood box, told him they were going to have unlawful carnal knowledge of his mother and shipped him off to Cairo, where he was waterboarded by Egyptian authorities. Lo and behold, he said that there was a link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. That information was used by Colin Powell in the United Nations as a prelude to war. A year later, after the war had commenced and after we are now in Iraq, the CIA says, "Whoops...
...dancers’ colorful clothes turn to black and white (which is a very cool effect, if you don’t value your eyesight) get the hell away from that screen. For once, the duo that makes up Gnarls Barkley—Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway)—appear in the video in person, and not as ink blots (“Crazy”) or as fleas perving on a leggy housewife (“Gone Daddy Gone”). Justin Timberlake shows up as well. “Run?...
...stardom a year later as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family. Natalie Portman, born June 9, 1981, zoomed to stardom in Luc Besson's Leon, a.k.a. The Professional, when she was 12. Scarlett Johansson, born Nov. 22, 1984, a leading actress at 11 as Manny in Manny & Lo, then at 13 as the troubled girl redeemed by Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer. All three girls kept acting through their teen years (Portman tucked a Harvard degree and a graduate stint at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem into her work schedule) and have successfully made the transition to adult stars...
Though foreign-language talent gets short shrift from American studios and movie theaters, they are often honored with Oscars. Italians won for Original Score (Dario Marianelli, Atonement) and Art Direction (Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo, Sweeney Todd); two Frenchmen won for Makeup (Didier Lavergne, La Vie en Rose) and Live Action Short (Philippe Pollet-Villard, the director, writer and star of The Mozart of Pickpockets.) But one reason the Academy often gives Oscars to foreigners is that they seem really to want one. "Thank you, life, thank you, love," Cotillard exclaimed, as effusive as Sally Field or Halle Berry...
...furiously, his voice passionate and raw. The tracks were frequently accompanied by an overwhelming low-fidelity hiss, courtesy of the cheap Panasonic boom box with which Darnielle recorded for years. This is not to say that the aesthetic change is an abrupt one; Darnielle’s conversion from lo-fi god to studio craftsman began with 2002’s “Tallahassee,” which dispatched with the distinctive fuzz and grainy vocals completely. The switch to the studio ultimately proved that Darnielle’s songs didn’t rely on a gimmick...