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...could they? Most of us aspire to have their problems. Yet substantial wealth, especially when it's acquired suddenly and early, can be both isolating and debilitating. Just try distinguishing genuine friends from parasites after you've come into a few mil. Even heirs who don't turn paranoid may become lazy and unproductive, and ultimately unfulfilled...
...dark. "We're a tight-knit community. If it were happening we would know," says Uthaiwan Sawanarun, owner of J.J. Taxi Group, who staunchly adds that she would drive anyone who bad-mouthed Thaksin straight to the police. Newspapers and opposition politicians branded Thaksin as paranoid. "If Thaksin seriously believes that groups of people are planning around- the-clock to destroy him, then maybe he should see a doctor,'' says Jurin Laksanavisit, a senior member of the opposition Democrat Party. Thaksin is perfectly fine, according to his deputy health minister, who assured the Bangkok Post that the Prime Minister "falls...
...knows how many jealous spouses, paranoid business managers and run-of-the-mill perverts have rushed out to buy their own snooping devices. Miniaturization technology and cheaper electronics have enabled thousands of Taiwanese to become amateur Big Brothers, surreptitiously videotaping employees, friends and total strangers without regard for privacy or propriety. Shopowners retailing tiny spy cameras (which cost between $30 and $400) say sales jumped tenfold after the Chu Mei-feng scandal. One of the hottest toys last Christmas was a Winnie the Pooh plush doll with cameras in its eye sockets...
...turn the binoculars to a few women’s magazines. What kind of schizo put this crap together? Right in the middle of a sea of dieting tips will be a page on a triple suicide. I feel like the writers and editors of these journals are paranoid nymphos with rock-bottom self-esteem who are missing the piece of their brain that discriminates between “interesting” and “totally not important.” I mean, the top features are either “How About Now: Am I Orgasming...
...true," although the only fully documented fact in Richard Hatem's script is the disaster--a collapsing bridge--that brings the movie to its climax. Actually it plays more like a good X-Files episode--full of plausible details placed in the service of paranormal (not to say paranoid) whoppers. But director Pellington's touch is light and flickering, and his actors are solid and persuasive. If you let yourself go with The Mothman Prophecies, it is--in its lumpen, serious way--sort...