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...corporation, the inventor vs the exploiter, the young athlete whose talents would be used and abused by the establishment. In the Racer clan, Pops (John Goodman) is a mechanic turned car designer. Mom (Susan Sarandon) is the family's emotional center, a font of dewy wisdom. Older brother Rex (Scott Porter) is a champion racer who confides some of his Zen driving secrets to his younger brother Speed before mysteriously disappearing after a car crash. Years later, Speed (Emile Hirsch) is ready to carry on the Racer tradition, to win the big rallies against some formidable drivers and a rigged...
...confining. The location of the Racers' home seems to be in idyllic suburban America, yet Speed's schoolteacher and classmates speak with English accents. The time, never specified, could be today but is emotionally the '50s or early '60s. Mom and Pops Racer's three sons - Rex, Speed and the youngest, Spritle (Paulie Litt) - are each separated by about 15 years. So just never mind that Goodman 55, Sarandon 61, are more likely to be Spritle's grandparents than his parents. Or that Speed's forever girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci, her ivory face framed by a helmet of black hair...
...candy hearts and roses bloom around him, illuminating his innocent ardor. The color scheme of the Racer home evokes Pee-wee's Playhouse in its cartoon cheeriness, and the decor is pure '50s Populuxe. Even the choice of wallpaper - cheery flowers in the kitchen, a tangle of rectangles for Rex's room - will have you smiling; it reinforces the sunny, mid-century mood of the last decade when family wasn't a dirty word, or a politically divisive...
...clear from the species tree that reptiles are not connected to the group that includes the T. Rex, a theory that had already become widely accepted based on the studies that examined the dinosaur’s bone architecture...
...Rex had popped out somewhere else—say our analysis grouped it with humans—our conclusion would be that we either screwed up the analysis real badly or the sequence from the T. Rex wasn’t authentic and there was contamination from some of the workers that sequenced the proteins,” said Chris L. Organ, a postdoctoral fellow in organismic and evolutionary biology and a co-author of the study...