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...opponents, all veterans of previous races, include Afro-dude Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson), the neo-Nazi Pachenko (Max Ryan), an ex-NASCAR, now NAStyCAR driver named Travis (Justin Mader) and the martial-artistic 14K (Robin Shou). When they're not playing bumper cars, they're taunting one another or spitting in a rival's food - animals marking their turf. Each driver is given a navigator, a babe on loan from a nearby women's prison, and Ames's is Case (Natalie Martinez), who has pneumatic skills of her own. Sitting next to him in their two-seater Ford Mustang...
...From this brisk synopsis, you can tell that Death Race 2000 is far richer than the remake. Both have an attitude; the first one has a vision. George Miller testified that the Bartel film inspired his Mad Max movies: the post-apocalyptic landscape, the valuing of speed over life, the fender-level shots of cars careering toward Armageddon. It also spawned a rip-off video game, called Death Race, supposedly the first of its kind to be banned. Death Race 2000 didn,t slam into any legal walls, but it has a lunatic daring that was a hallmark...
Like traditional Japanese poetry, the new pop-culture haiku says a lot with few words. These days digital eloquence is defined by pithiness. Witness the rise of Twitter.com where more than a million users submit messages of 140 characters max (i.e., no longer than this sentence). In the book world, a surprise hit this year has been Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. The book, which features entries culled from more than 25,000 submissions on smithmag.net begins with children's advocate Robin Templeton's "After Harvard, had baby with crackhead...
...When deciding how to pay for college, families should start by contacting their school's financial aid office. About $130 billion a year is available in scholarships and grants. The first step in borrowing money for school is to max out on low-interest government programs such as federal Stafford loans. In the past, lots of families have turned to private loans to make up the difference, with borrowers taking out about $17 billion in such loans during the 2006-2007 school year. But as credit markets dried up last spring, many private lenders either went out of business...
...movie's sunny strength and its ultimate limitation - since life is not perhaps simply a series of bed partners from whom we discover that the greatest wisdom is realizing we always have more to learn from others, and about ourselves. The movie has neither the sardonic heft of Max Ophuls' La Ronde nor the emotional precision of Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, two films that also dance the change-partners gavotte. But Vicky Cristina Barcelona is so engaging so much of the time that it feels like a modest rejuvenation: evidence that a summer in Spain...