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...said the same nicknames and the same vehicles kept popping up in various attacks. "Of 23 Katrina-related homicides in Houston, we linked nine to just two groups from New Orleans-the 3'n'G and the Dooney boys," Harris told TIME. The Dooney boys, who come from the Magnolia Projects just west of downtown New Orleans, home of the slain rapper Soulja Slim, are old rivals of the 3'n'G (named for the intersection of Third and Galvez). "This wasn't a Houston thing," says Harris. "You see a spike in homicides in New Orleans in July...
Media trend spotting can be fun. Here's one I've noticed. Pulp Fiction (1994), Magnolia (1999) and this year's Crash are all movies that use multiple, seemingly unrelated storylines weaving across each other or culminating in one climactic event. Graphic novels have also started to explore this technique. Earlier this year Dan Clowes' impressive Ice Haven (a repackaging of his comic book Eightball #22) bounced among the denizens of a suburban town. The latest book to use this style, Tricked (Top Shelf Productions; $20), by Alex Robinson, comes from an author who works in large scale. His first...
...characters end up in the same place at the same time in a violent climax. But, although these narratives drive their characters to a single point in space and time, they never seem to converge thematically. Where the rain of frogs at the end of the movie Magnolia came on like a cathartic, physical manifestation of all the character's exploding emotions, the big payoff in Tricked just seems contrived. After taking pains to present a messy, complex life-like structure, it resolves into a conventional wrap-up where the bad get punished, the lovers unite and the world...
...Yuba City and Marysville to leave their homes as the Feather River overflowed its banks. A sinkhole in Seattle swallowed part of a gas station, while about 90 mud slides struck the area, burying roads, threatening homes and sweeping away the wooden supports of the 66-year-old Magnolia Bridge...
...busy scenes in unusually long, fluid takes of five or six minutes with three, sometimes four, cameras running simultaneously. His cinematographer, Ed Lachman, says it's "like performing free-form jazz." At Altman's elbow during last month's shooting was his friend and fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia), standing by at the insurance company's behest in case anything happened to Altman...