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...first glance, the selection makes sense. As the biggest movie of the summer, it would resonate with the maximum number of voters. Normal folk buying tickets to the PG-13 film (no sex, please, we're the Doles) and indulging in Goobers and popcorn makes for an excellent photo-op. Culturally clueless--his favorite entertainers, Glenn Miller and John Wayne, are dead--Dole was taken to task after his first Hollywood "nightmares-of-depravity" speech for criticizing movies he hadn't seen and music he hadn't heard. Now that he was planning to do a back flip with...
...Cassandras and 19th century writers and social scientists on the radical fringe, long-range forecasting has become a sophisticated and quite profitable industry. Its practitioners, who appear with increasing frequency in the press and on the best-seller lists, run the professional gamut: from pop-culture chroniclers like Faith Popcorn ("cocooning") and Douglas Rushkoff (Cyberia) through digital-media stars like M.I.T.'s Nicholas Negroponte and the Institute for the Future's Paul Saffo to buttoned-down management gurus like Peter Drucker and John Naisbitt (Megatrends...
Like most Americans, I tend to deplore the postmodern moviegoing experience--from the claustrophobic confines of the cineplex to the rowdiness of interactive audiences to the sinister "golden topping" that saturates the reheated popcorn...
...alien-invasion epic Independence Day--at home. Dean Devlin, the co-writer and producer, watched Dad watch the film, and Devlin was impressed: "He was whipping off facts about history, talking about social and international issues. But when the movie started, he pulled out a big old bucket of popcorn, kicked back, and he was Bubba again...
...story about Clolin Powell or Michael Jackson, a scientific discovery (hah!) or the release of "Twister." What makes for a good news story is not how broadly or deeply it affects its audience but how interested those consumers will be to hear of it. The editor must keep throwing popcorn to his or her audience in order to keep the elephants alertly placated in front of their television cage. If the elephants get off on O.J., then give them O.J. And Kato. And bring back Nicole...