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...antagonist who relies on the support of ad money and horny secretaries can only advance so far. Plympton’s inventive mind is perceptive enough to create clever scenarios with some sort of reason to them; in the best sequence of the film, he conjures up a planet inhabited by intelligent body parts, but has the wit to craft a discordant societal structure around them. Earl takes up with the planet’s population of tiny-limbed noses, and together they battle tongues, lips, thumbs marching stoutly in formation, and eyes riding hands and feet into battle, their...
...Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia has 12 roller coasters, but it plans to spend $30 million this year to add three more. "We'll have more roller coasters in one place than anywhere else on this planet," promises spokesperson Amy Means. Six Flags currently boasts, among other superlatives, the tallest (415 ft.) and fastest (100 m.p.h.) coasters in the world. And over at Universal Studios Hollywood, which is planning new attractions around a live Rug Rats entertainment show and the Animal Planet TV show, officials lined up a deal to provide free round-trip transportation for Disneyland guests to Universal...
...shows are set up and edited for dramatic TV - viewing between the lines is part of the sport of watching. Rules are rules, of course, but if Survivorgate ends up disillusioning any of the masses, it'll be those receiving the broadcast a century from now on another planet...
...induce a patriotic rush among Americans, but cause a frisson of anxiety in Europe. Not long ago, when a young, unknown Southern governor with little stated interest in foreign affairs won the presidency, gloom settled over many corners of the Continent. ?Nothing suggests (he) believes the problems of the planet are as serious as those of his country,? Le Monde sighed. ?We are facing an American Administration that will be more isolationist than its predecessor...
When STEVE IRWIN, the heavily caffeinated host of Animal Planet's Crocodile Hunter, does his trademark spread-legged jump-on-the-back-of-a-croc maneuver, you can almost hear the Air Supply tunes playing in his head. The man loves his reptiles, deeply. Apparently, the feeling is not always mutual. While trying his special brand of crocodile concupiscence last week at Australia Zoo, 60 miles north of Brisbane, a 13-year-old, 176-lb. female saltwater croc named Toolakea spun on Irwin and removed a juicy morsel from his leg. "She did a huge, big, full-bodied shake," says...