Word: pinocchios
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...eluding jellyfish stings, Nemo's claustrophobic panic in a plastic bag--are realized with assured energy and balanced by a dozen deft comic performances, notably those of DeGeneres and Stanton himself as the lead sea turtle. Nemo has artistic and political resonances galore: it alludes to favorite movies, from Pinocchio to Psycho, and fearlessly takes on the powerful pet-shop and aquarium lobbies. There is also the secret insignia of any Pixar feature: a G-rated fart joke...
Before there was Jayson Blair, there was Stephen Glass, the Pinocchio of print journalism. Remember him? Five years ago, when he was just 25 and a fast-rising writer at the New Republic, Glass became briefly notorious when it emerged that he had fabricated all or parts of dozens of pieces in that magazine, George, Rolling Stone and other high-profile places. That story about the cult that worshipped George H.W. Bush always did seem too good to be true...
...this scene from The Adventures of Pinocchio, the mischievous puppet delivers a kick to hapless Geppetto's nose...
...Stanley Kubrick project directed by Steven Spielberg, A.I. is a loose update of Pinocchio. This time it's a robot that wants to become...
...movie opened in a record 860 theaters last Friday, audiences got their first glimpse of a film that unites, from a century apart, two prankster icons of Tuscan culture. The country's pride in Benigni's success is immense, but so is its stake in the purity of the Pinocchio story. And Benigni's Pinocchio - directed by and starring the maestro, with the same production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay true to the original story. But once the ballyhoo...