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...last part in his gloomy picture concerns the runaway growth of debt, and not just the massive increase in what you and I owe on credit cards and mortgages, although that opens the way to widespread defaults if the economy stumbles badly or real estate comes in for a hard landing. To cover its deficits in recent years, the U.S. became a huge debtor in overseas markets. That kind of borrowing, Phillips reminds us, was a prelude to the collapse of earlier empires. "There have been no heavenly interventions on behalf of past leading international debtors," he says dryly...
Likewise, the runaway success of niche films has been a source of consternation for major studios. “Madea’s Family Reunion”—Tyler Perry’s follow-up to his 2005 cult hit “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”—topped the box office for two weeks despite being targeted almost exclusively at African-Americans familiar with Perry’s stage productions...
...Tripp commit? Will Paula admit her true feelings for him?—because it’s all been done before. Clear parallels are easy to draw between this movie and “How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days,” “Runaway Bride,” and even “Pillow Talk.” However, as we watch Parker seduce McConaughey, perhaps the audience is also being manipulated into thinking this is a smart, funny romantic comedy. The film crosses off every point on the romantic comedy checklist...
...Home Team corollary: actors comprise the largest Academy contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that?s so teeming with speaking parts it seems to have employed half the SAG members in Southern California...
Mary Luce is an average-looking woman and a cancer survivor. Volunteering as a telephone operator for a suicide-prevention line, she is thrust into the world of vampires after a chance encounter with a scrawny mute runaway named John Matthew...