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Forty years ago, Richard O'Barry watched Kathy, a dolphin in the 1960s television show Flipper, kill herself. Or so he says. She looked him in the eye, sank to the bottom of a steel tank and stopped breathing. The moment transformed the dolphin trainer into an animal-rights activist for life, and his role in The Cove, the Oscar-winning documentary about the dolphin-meat business in a small town in Japan, has transformed him into a celebrity...
...disappointed that you gave no credit to W. Edwards Deming. The U.S. statistician helped elevate Japanese manufacturing across the board and making Japan's car industry competitive with the Big Three, which had refused his ideas. A. Trujillo Escareño, TUSTIN, CALIF...
...surprised and disappointed that you gave no credit to W. Edwards Deming. The American statistician was responsible for helping elevate Japanese manufacturing across the board and making the Japanese car industry competitive with the Big Three, which had initially refused his ideas. A. Trujillo Escareño Tustin, Calif...
...delicate task with the Tonight Show relaunch: making an event of something that viewers were watching less than a year ago without too many awkward reminders of what came between. But no one can say Leno isn't comfortable in his new-old job. As opposed to Conan O'Brien--who reveled in stagy awkwardness--Leno is betting that America will respond to a show that's comfortable, familiar and pretty much unchanged...
...real Matt Damon didn't fare much better as the star of the new Green Zone: he went looking for the truth about Iraq's WMDs, and got blown up by the IED of public indifference. The box-office curse of movies about the U.S. Mess-o-potamian escapade remained unbroken, as Damon became the latest star - after George Clooney, Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, not to mention the South Park guys - whose attempt to address the blood and blunders in our Mideast wars tanked with the mass audience...