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...former Saved by the Bell: The New Class regular says she now plans on returning to television: she’s developing a sitcom about an actress who “gets in trouble with the tabloids.” Very meta...
...COOLEST TECHNOLOGIES The diesel-fueled hybrid Opel Astra, which gets 60 m.p.g; Ford's Mercury Meta One, a prototype of a hybrid-powered SUV; and BMW's H2R racer, fueled by liquid hydrogen. GM also will reveal the hybrid system it plans for full-size pickups and SUVs...
...Considering that the two men were hiding out at the theatre after performing a grisly murder, the comment becomes an obviously self-referential wink. Almodovar’s camera lingers on the vampy posters as they leave the theatre, putting the stylistic cap on yet another strange piece of meta-cinema that looks back more to the director’s own earlier work than his recent melodramas Talk to Her and All About My Mother...
...that he’s got dramatic chops. Sandler is beginning to mature into an excellent actor, balancing the heavy drama with nuanced cool, and the comic—well, he never really had a problem with that. At one point Brooks even adds a little meta-joke about the Sandler character: annoyed with one of his employees Sandler bursts into one of his classic “the price is wrong—bitch” fits of anger and then calmly says to his confused employee, “that’s right—that...
...what’s going on with Paris Hilton? National Treasure is so formulaic that if Nicholas Cage asked hottie Abigail about hotel heiresses it would charge the film with an exciting postmodern meta-discourse (comparatively). But the film’s ho-hum shenanigans aren’t devoid of eye-opening sexual elements, particularly the masculinity crisis embodied in Cage’s ‘girly’ sidekick Riley. Throughout the film he whines and moans about all the danger Gates is getting him into, in between his moments of rocket scientist computer wizardry. Riley refers...