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...just called food? Heck, while they're at it, why not sell tacos in Mexico? Yum is doing both, with the test-marketing of East Dawning in Shanghai and the opening of a Taco Bell in Monterrey last fall. Yum's iconoclastic CEO, David Novak, likens it to how Ray Kroc of McDonald's brought hamburgers to America. "I asked, What's the hamburger in China?" he says. "Obviously, it's Chinese food." Except Kroc was an American selling American food to Americans. Is this brilliant, or is Novak half-Kroc...
...Just about every other plot and effects element in Cloverfield is familiar. The movie is basically the 1954 Godzilla (itself a gloss on Ray Harryhausen's 1953 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, in which a prehistoric beast is roused by atomic tests to terrorize New York City) told in the style of, and with the characters from, The Blair Witch Project (but with a lot less internal cohesion; this could be called "The Blair Witch Reject"). The State of Liberty head comes from the poster for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (though that shot...
...have been a so-called notable personality, but only because the media swarmed around her, waiting for her to do more and more ridiculous things. She became a bigger-than-life caricature of herself, a real-life burlesque act because of the media. She should be pitied, not honored. Ray Schwartz, NEW YORK CITY
...seems like some of these dollars do not accrue to our needs, but instead to exactions—mandated payments that don’t filter down to our local community,” Task Force chairman Ray Mellone said...
...Beverly Sills left us with the magic of music, and Anna Nicole Smith left us with ... what exactly? She might have been a celebrity, but only because the media swarmed around her, waiting for her to do more and more ridiculous things. She should be pitied, not honored. Ray Schwartz, New York City...