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...also echoes Jerry Maguire, the Tom Cruise hit that Brooks produced last year. That one had a self-obsessed hero, a sweet mother-child tandem and a media figure in trouble. All you can say about Brooks' new film, which he wrote with Mark Andrus, is that it's richer, funnier, less predictable and miles more human, with Brooks' patented quirky grace notes--dialogue you don't hear anyplace else, alas, in popular art. The film is like a party that takes a while to warm up; once you get to know the strangers there, you're bound to have...
...even less tenable. Previous agreements on greenhouse-gas emissions, as well as the proposal the E.U. is bringing to Kyoto, have tried to ease the burden on such developing countries as China and India. Most of the world's emissions come from the U.S. and Europe, after all, and richer countries can more easily afford to clean...
...TITLE] FOR RICHER OR POORER...
...Murray carrying the whole cast? Thankfully, Murray's latest is an altogether humorous and clever film alternately mocking conventions of the Cold War, James Bond espionage thrillers and the theater itself, along with more pratfalls than even Chevy Chase could dream of. Wallace (Bill Murray) drops in on his richer brother (Peter Gallagher) and, thinking he's doing participatory theater, quickly finds he is the "wrong man" in an espionage plot. The name of the game is irony and near-misses, as Murray keeps the audience laughing--when he's not tossing Russian nested dolls...
...blacks and Hispanics are poor, and given that the poor typically have fewer opportunities, and further given that children who are read to wield an advantage, the issue clearly lies not in race, but rather in class. The poor with fewer opportunities will on average suffer in competing with richer counterparts, and this is true regardless of race...