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...case of Fearless, the cataclysm is a plane crash. Among the survivors is Max Klein (Jeff Bridges), an architect. He comes out of that field leading a young boy and cradling a baby in his arms. We learn later that he led others to safety as well, despite the fact that his partner and best friend died horribly just a few feet from him. Max's opposite number is Carla Rodrigo (Rosie Perez), whose baby was wrenched from her arms and killed on impact...
That's the great thing about Fearless -- its unexpectedness. The most one might expect these days in a movie about a plane crash is Airport '93. The ; best we might hope for in a study of survivors is psychological faith healing. But Rafael Yglesias has written what amounts to a meditation on mortality. In the process, he has provided director Peter Weir with a route back to his best vein, that of Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, those curiously creepy movies in which ineffable, quite insoluble mysteries slowly insinuate themselves into ordinary life. Together, the filmmakers have...
...from the gunmen of local warlords. "In the first two weeks I was in Somalia, I saw more combat than during six months in Saudi ((Arabia))," says Follett, a recently discharged Gulf War veteran who is now back in Watertown, New York. "As soon as we stepped off the plane, we were getting shot...
Washington -- After investing $42 million to integrate a long-range air- tracking radar system into its C-130 aircraft to help detect drug smugglers, the U.S. COAST GUARD concluded that the plane's $2.5 million annual maintenance and operational costs weren't worth it. So it decided to offer the plane to the drug-interdiction program at the Pentagon, the main agency charged with air and maritime drug detection. But because the Pentagon decided that "we already have better equipment," the plane was transferred to the Air Force to carry cargo...
According to the numbers, each of us has a lifetime risk of one in 30,000 of death by asteroid--roughly equivalent to our chances of dying in a plane crash...