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...highly critical of France. Are things really that bad? There's a corporate France that's doing very well. There's a labor France that's not doing well, and there's a political France that is on another planet. We have a Communist Party that continues to create problems, even if it isn't very representative. We have a Socialist Party that still dreams of a socialist economy. We have unions that represent just 8% of the workers but who who scare all governments. And we have a right that doesn't dare assume its role. It's surreal...
...year-old filmmaker, whom Szubanski also describes as "a big cuddly bear with a brain the size of a planet," usually gives audiences and filmmaking rivals a five-year head start-the typical time it takes to get his notoriously painstaking projects (including his ongoing Sydney house renovations) off the ground. So in 2003, when Miller announced that following the stalling of his fourth Mad Max film, in part because of the war in Iraq, his next project would be an animated penguin musical, to be made in Australia with a production house relatively new to the game, Pixar must...
...foul-mouthed, drug-snorting grandpa in the indie Little Miss Sunshine, out this week on DVD. The acerbic actor chatted with TIME's Carolina A. Miranda about why he doesn't give a hoot about the Oscars, his passion for New Mexico and how we humans are wrecking the planet...
...high-minded war turns into a brutal quagmire. Terrorist sleepers turn the public paranoid. And the victims of an attack find themselves sacrificing liberty to defend it. Sound like any planet you know? The topical parallels became deeper and more chilling in Seasons 2 and 3 of this thinking viewer's space opera. It's like the Iraq Study Group report with starship fights and hot-looking robots...
...that newsworthy events can be broadcast instantly around the planet, it's easy to believe that we live in a particularly dangerous era. But I don't buy it. I stopped watching television, so I am not bothered by shampoo bombs on airplanes or strange bacteria in my spinach. The information age has lengthened the list of things to worry about. It seems the biggest worriers accept the evening news as absolute truth. MICHELLE SISSON Fair Oaks, Calif...