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...learned to fight. It is like drinking water.” Simple cuts contrast the people’s colorful clothes and silent faces with the landscape of unburied skeletons and charred bed frames. As the film draws to a close, the mood swings upwards. Sterling’s Santa Monica petitioning and Cheadle’s celebrity efforts lead to a California divestment bill, signed at a star-studded ceremony. Warrants of arrest are issued for two of Sudan’s worst offenders. The food convoy reaches its destination. Adam tells her fellow rebels of the brave deeds...
...must have seemed like a good idea: take a familiar tale—the Santa Claus story—and breathe some life into it by means of talented actors. Cast box office king Vince Vaughn as the protagonist, throw in a little Paul Giamatti, Kathy Bates, and Rachel Weisz to add some Oscar cred, and get Kevin Spacey to play the villain. You’ve gotta get Spacey to play the villain. The man put Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in a box in “Se7en,” so he’s sure...
Paul Giamatti as Santa Claus and Vince Vaughn as his loser brother Fred, in a holiday jape from the director of Wedding Crashers and one of the writers of Cars: that should be funny. Except, no. The laughs come too rarely, the sentiment is tricked up, and this attempt at a Christmas perennial wilts faster than a cheap balsam choked with tinsel...
...very grateful that the loss of life was far less this time than in previous fires. I praise the local authorities for using reverse-911 calls and making sure people were out of harm's way. Nevertheless, there was a lot of property damage, thanks to the Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions. You cannot win against Mother Nature--whether you're confronting hurricanes in the East or fires and earthquakes in the West. You can only do your best to save people and the things that are important to them...
...Colorado, and the small town of Hailey, Idaho - passed pro-marijuana measures on election day this week, joining a growing number of liberal localities that are reducing or removing penalties on using pot. It's part of a slowly evolving populist rehabilitation of the drug. San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Monica in California, along with Missoula, Montana, and Seattle, Washington, have previously passed laws that give the lowest priority to enforcing existing marijuana laws...