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...wrote. "See, I was so caught up in pondering whether the lawn should get another dose of Weed & Feed that I lifted the lid on the garbage pail thinking it was our laundry basket. It was only an hour or so later, when I went to discard some peach peelings, that I saw my boxers there on the top of the heap...
...odyssey across Italy on which he attempts to emulate every extravagance of their decadent lifestyle. It is here that Tom's character is at last developed. The extremity of his ambitions and envy is demonstrated by his tigerlike eating--at times of tension he is seen devouring a peach in three angry bites, gnashing down a blazing chicken straight from the oven with his bare hands, slicing and gulping down long meaty lengths of sausage. All the while his sculpted good looks, strong cheekbones and short, rumpled hair bring an unnerving purity to his appearance no matter how viscious...
...fully anticipate the wrath of several generations of possessive children when we declare that the new Disney film of James and the Giant Peach is an improvement on Roald Dahl's 1961 backyard fantasy. Director Henry Selick and his team of screenwriters (Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom) and technical specialists have given the story balance and emotional heft. Mixing stylized live action with stop-motion animation, they have reconciled the tale's realistic and surreal elements and, in five sprightly Randy Newman tunes, made the story sing...
...rest of you, a little plot summary. James is an orphan boy in the care of two sadistic maiden aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Through some green magic, a garden peach grows to geospheric dimensions. James crawls inside through a pulpy canal, meets some eccentric insects (Old-Green-Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, Miss Spider, Glowworm, Earthworm) and floats across the sea on an adventure that grafts Jules Verne onto Lewis Carroll...
...they are. Riding home on Air Force One two weeks ago, Clinton chatted off the record for nearly two hours on everything from the new Redford movies, the pitfalls of instant information, the prospect of living past 100, the importance of cheap vacations to American culture, global warming, peach cobbler and the NCAA basketball playoffs...