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...development. It helps most of all that Oz, the sometime Sesame Street puppeteer (and, lest we forget, the man behind Yoda) is in charge. He's always been a terrific farceur (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, In and Out, Bowfinger) and he's at the top of his game here, a master at showing actors how to take the most appalling pratfalls while maintaining their deadpan dignity. If the movie errs, it is with an extended doo-doo joke that crosses over the line into grossness...
...traveled to this remote cove in northeastern Spain to visit the creator in his studio. They toured his inner sanctum in appreciative silence. They marveled at his unusual materials, his precise execution, his sheer ingenuity. And then, like everyone else at El Bulli, they sat down and ate the master's work...
...second best tennis player in the world. Now the Spanish master of the clay courts will try to beat out No. 1, Roger Federer, in the upcoming U.S. Open. Rafael Nadal will now take your questions...
...Segura's art, more about Coop and his crooked card games. And then there's the question of whether the book coheres. In addition to the echoes of repeating themes, characters are linked by shared sentiments of hurt, dispossession and a love of solitude. But for once, the hawk master has failed at his game: for all the delight of the slips and falls, it doesn't all add up to one story...
...young Phil Spector, who was intrigued by the hit sounds Hazlewood created for teenager Duane Eddy, using a grain elevator to create reverb and twang. The anti-Establishment artist, who helped spur country-pop, shunned fame by escaping to Sweden in the '70s. But by the '90s the master of "cowboy psychedelia" had been rediscovered by alternative-rock bands like Primal Scream and Sonic Youth. Of his cult status he said, "Thank God for kids that love obscure things...