Word: mads
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...Isaacson argued cogently for dialogue with Iran and then sabotaged his arguments by name calling. Does it promote fruitful dialogue to call President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "mad" and say he sounds "like a lunatic"? Has Ahmadinejad done anything remotely as mad and lunatic as invading Iraq? Demonizing and name calling are what have got us into this horrific mess in the Middle East. Carl J. Ekberg Purgitsville, West Virginia...
...uncanny ability to master the minutiae of moviemaking while never losing sight of the bigger picture-even if it's a picture that no one's envisaged before. With unerring prescience, Miller has zoomed Australian cinema out of a costume-drama past and into a cutting-edge future (Mad Max); beamed through the freckles and frizzy hair of a gawky Sydneysider to find the screen goddess within Nicole Kidman (as producer of Flirting and Dead Calm); and spliced live action with animatronics and CGI as creator of the beloved Babe franchise. "Somehow or other, his imagination is wired...
...size of a planet," usually gives audiences and filmmaking rivals a five-year head start-the typical time it takes to get his notoriously painstaking projects (including his ongoing Sydney house renovations) off the ground. So in 2003, when Miller announced that following the stalling of his fourth Mad Max film, in part because of the war in Iraq, his next project would be an animated penguin musical, to be made in Australia with a production house relatively new to the game, Pixar must have rubbed its hands with glee. Reading the Happy Feet script for the first time, Szubanski...
...honored by his society, frequently unrecognized or disdained." From misfit Max, to a piglet who thinks he's a sheep, and a penguin who can't express himself through song, only dance, the stories remain essentially the same. "There's no difference between Happy Feet, Babe and Mad Max," Miller insists...
...look and play the part of merrymakers, the crowd was given bags of props, all courtesy of corporate America. Red Mad Hatter hats had "Chevy" stamped on them. This year there was "wordfetti": pieces of cardboard, a bit smaller than calling cards, with the words CELEBRATE, LOVE, PEACE, PLAY and DANCE printed on them. On the back was the logo of Target, which also sponsored those glasses in the shape of a 2007, with the zeroes for eye holes (a clever design that will become obsolete in 2010). DiscoverCard had its brand on the ginchiest bit of couture, a fringed...