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There was a time when we could count on the movies to slip a $2 whoopee cushion under the seats of the rich and fatuous. Charlie Chaplin once said all he needed to make a comedy was a park, a pretty girl, a cop (representing befuddled authority) and, of course, his immortally anarchic self. All Groucho Marx required was the divinely distracted Margaret Dumont to play the stuffy rich lady he was determined to unstuff. Those movies permitted their subversive stars to invade the ballrooms and bedrooms of the privileged, if only to bring their inhabitants back down to earthiness...
...Rowling has vowed not to write any more Harry Potter books after the one she's working on now. So say goodbye, because one more novel, three more movies, four more video games, a few board games and a theme-park ride, and she's out." --DAVID SPADE...
...senior matinees in mind of Cecil B. DeMille's Reap the Wild Wind (1942). And that says nothing of the water wheel that comes loose from its mooring at an old mill and rumbles across the countryside, quite like the ferris wheel that rolled out of an amusement park in Steven Spielberg's 1941 to similarly mirthless effect...
...Screen comedy is at its best when it pitches it tent close to the poverty line. Think Chaplin, who once said that all he needed to be funny was a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Think Keaton, who once did a brilliant special-effects comedy, (Sherlock, Jr.) , where you were almost unaware of his very subtle camera tricks. Think Grant, Hepburn and their wayward leopard. For that matter, think Something About Mary, which pretty much took place in a cramped apartment. The minute the effects budget swells, it starts to crush the life out of comedy, which needs...
...creations. Housingmaps.com mates Google Maps with classified-ad giant Craigslist.org to offer an interactive way to look for housing in the U.S. The mashups show where the properties on offer are located, so house hunters are spared the physical effort of pacing out the distance to, say, the nearest park or supermarket. And they'll be able to browse details of house prices and look at photos of the neighborhood, too. Bikely.com offers a mashup of the best bike routes around the world for cycling enthusiasts. Ibiseye.com, based in Florida, tracks every hurricane that has hit the state since...