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Thanks to Lucas and his brilliant team, special effects became the prettiest new tool in the movie paint box. "Star Wars convinced filmmakers that you can do anything bigger and better to enhance the shot," says Jason Barlow, lead CG animator for the effects company RIOT. "Now, with digital technology, real magic can happen." The movie even changed the way films are financed. Notes cultural critic John Seabrook: "Because of its huge box office, it interested Wall Street people who had previously seen Hollywood as small potatoes. The Star Wars numbers brought a new variety of investor and financial manager...
There doesn't seem to be much doubt now that Yasser Esam Hamdi was born on the bayou. Or that Hamdi and alleged Taliban turncoat John Walker Lindh were among the holdouts in the Qala-i-Jangi prison riot that day, raising the possibility that the two knew each other. But they were separated immediately after capture because Lindh needed medical attention and Hamdi didn't appear to be injured. In February Hamdi was shipped off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with other suspected al-Qaeda men. "From the very beginning, there was a possibility in everyone's mind that...
...relations, is a dad now. Has diaper duty mellowed him into Cosby Jr.? Relax. He faces a comic's worst nightmare--love and happiness--by taking fatherhood as occasion for a hilarious, moving look at his bumpy love-life past, with a little Latino History 101 thrown in. His riot of voices and song is unsparing of parents, ex-lovers and himself. When he met his live-in girlfriend, he tells us, "My therapist said, 'Congratulations, John! You are now emotionally 12 years old!'" Here's hoping he never grows...
...when Powell meets Arafat, he's expected to read the Palestinian leader the riot act, warning that diplomatic oblivion awaits if he refuses to publicly denounce terrorism and order a cease-fire. The Bush administration may also be hoping to persuade Arafat to accept a more symbolic role, making the public call for a truce but mandating a group of his subordinates to begin the actual work of negotiating cease-fire and political agreements with the Israelis. The fact that the U.S. is now drawing a close link between a cease-fire and political negotiations over Palestinian statehood may have...
...only the counter-Japan it's always seemed to be, but, in parts a corrective to Japan. The "Land of Wa" famously, ideally, functions like an orchestra in which everyone knows her part in a score designed to present a public harmony; India, by contrast, is a riot of competing interests in which everyone is flying off in a different direction. Yet what this also means is that when the government in Japan is paralyzed, the people tethered to it are equally oppressed; whereas India might be the story of individual energies working around and despite institutions that are sclerotic...