Word: parkes
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...ROBINSON LaGrange Park...
...only is the air cleaner in the Centennial State, but the people there also l ive longer. A Harvard study showed that the seven U.S. counties with the greatest average life expectancy--81.3 years--were all in Colorado. (Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Grand, Jackson, Park and Summit, for those of you thinking about packing a U-Haul.) Exactly what's so special about Colorado is not entirely clear, since the study authors controlled for any bias caused by race or income. Perhaps the residents' good fortune has to do with the fact that they all live in mountainous areas, where...
...with crawling cameras, dozens of characters, overlapping dialogue, and a belief that life was way too messy and complex for ordinary film narratives. Any Western town (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), casino (California Split), reception (A Wedding), concert (Nashville), Hollywood power grab (The Player), L.A. earthquake (Short Cuts), country weekend (Gosford Park) or old-time radio show (A Prairie Home Companion) could be the setting for his artful chaos, which gave actors plenty of freedom, and writers nightmares. Receiving a Lifetime Achievement Oscar this year, Altman revealed that he'd had a heart transplant a decade ago. That borrowed heart didn...
...toddler. No Chuck E. Cheese. When I see an ice cream truck I have to walk the other way because he's contact-sensitive. I thought I was going to be the cool mom and travel to Europe with my baby and take him to Fenway Park. But even at minor league games, everyone's throwing peanuts at each other." One saving grace has been an annual trip to Nantucket that Pasternak takes with her friends from college. "They make the house totally safe for Lucas," she says. "Nobody uses milk, eggs or nuts. I don't have...
...open a film with an elegant eight-minute tracking shot that brings dozens of characters together and introduces a whodunit teaser. Altman did it, and so much more, with The Player. He continued his innovations with film form in Short Cuts and Ready to Wear and the 2001 Gosford Park. By then, as happens to most pioneering artists, experiment had calcified into the format of "the Altman movie." But what the hell. He created it; he was entitled to develop...