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...certainly realized the gravity of the situation, which explains why he brought in Mulally. At Boeing, Mulally had a reputation as an ace engineer and turnaround guy. He helped develop hit models like the 777 jetliner, launched in the early '90s, and the 787 Dreamliner, expected in 2008. After plane orders plummeted following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mulally stabilized the commercial aircraft division, which is now earning handsome profits. Nor has he shied from downsizing. Under his reign, Boeing's commercial division layed off 30,000 workers, shuttered factories and killed products that weren't pulling their financial weight, like...
Experts will tell you that the hole was punched by the plane's fuselage, not its wings, which sheared off on impact. But then what happened to the wings? And the tail and the engines? Images of the crash site show hardly any of the wreckage you would expect from a building that's been rammed by a commercial jet. The lawn, where the plane supposedly dragged a wing on approach, is practically pristine. The plane supposedly clipped five lampposts on its way in, but the lampposts in question show surprisingly little damage. And could Hani Hanjour, the man supposedly...
...unreasonable to swallow. Granted, the Pentagon crash site looks odd in photographs. But if the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile, then what happened to American Airlines Flight 77? Where did all the real, documented people on it go? Assassinated? Relocated? What about eyewitnesses who saw a plane, not a missile? And what are the chances that an operation of such size--it would surely have involved hundreds of military and civilian personnel--could be carried out without a single leak? Without leaving behind a single piece of evidence hard enough to stand up to scrutiny in a court...
Goodwin continues to pursue studio projects. He won a Grammy for an arrangement in last year's The Incredibles, and this year he has orchestrated and conducted the scores for Snakes on a Plane and The Guardian. But the Phat Band has become a cause for him, if not quite a career. After all, with his exuberant, missionary zeal, he is advancing a vital tradition. At a Phat Band concert a year ago at the Santa Monica Pier in Southern California, one appreciative listener was the venerated arranger-composer Johnny Mandel, 80, who wrote for the likes of Basie, Herman...
...Depp was back as Captain Jack Sparrow, in Part Two of Pirates of the Caribbean but he was more than ever mysteriously immune to the charms of Kiera Knightley, his presence too often buried under the weight of witless special effects; and, of course, there was Snakes on a Plane, which more or less definitively proved that Internet buzz is not necessarily a reliable selling tool for a movie...