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...military power to fight insurgent forces and the vision of the U.S. as a superstud nation beset by terrorists abroad and liberal actors at home. It pulls off this brassy trope in the guise of an action movie in the Jerry Bruckheimer mode. Imagine Armageddon starring Pinocchio...
...goes in this movie: Pinocchio has a cross-dressing secret; Joan Rivers does inane fashion commentary on the red carpet leading to a palace shindig; a dash to rescue the Princess is interrupted by corrupt cops who plant an illegal drug--Yikes! It's catnip--on Puss while tabloid TV covers the bust. The most basic Shrek joke--satirized modernity intruding on fairy-tale romance--is played in 100 variants, some of which will sail over the heads of the littlest kids in the audience (there's plenty else to keep them giggling) but will be very gratefully received...
...columns, for an average of 3,820 words per story. The shortest piece was the first, an introduction to the scope and aims of the enterprise. That came in under 2,000 words. The pieces averaged about 2,500 words for the first few months, then just grew like Pinocchio?s nose. The longest column was on a dozen films made from Woolrich novels and stories. That one (it was the second of two Woolrich pieces - I do get carried away) ran more than 7,600, and I fear that, somewhere off in cyberspace, it?s still running...
...firm's San Francisco headquarters is festooned with games--a giant Pinocchio marionette, a glow-in-the-dark walk-through cave and a secret bookshelf that opens into another room, like something out of the old TV spy sitcom Get Smart. "We try to inject fun into everything we do," says Moog...
Last week was a rough one for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. And it wasn't just because protesters wearing Pinocchio noses greeted him when he arrived at the High Court in London to testify before the Hutton Inquiry into the apparent suicide of David Kelly--a government weapons expert and the source for a BBC report in May alleging that Blair's aides knowingly inserted false information into a dossier on Iraq's unconventional weapons. Blair gave a virtuoso performance, saying he would have had to quit if the report had been proved true. Still, a CNN/TIME poll found...