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...Fighting the Fiscal Fix It's not often that I agree with michael Kinsley, but his Essay opposing a fiscal stimulus was a winner [Feb. 4]. For years we have overspent on oversize homes, flat-screen TVs and gas-guzzling SUVs, with little regard for our ability to pay for them. Now it's time for the people and the government to break the addiction. Kent Nash, HENDERSON...
...power plants would replace coal-fired plants, and an agency dedicated to developing new energy sources would allow us to end our dependency on foreign oil. But if this is too ambitious a plan for our politicians, they can give me my handout and I'll buy a large-screen TV. Jerry Ebersbaker, HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE...
...Normally, my roommates, friends, and I turn to the tiny silver screen to while away the time; there isn’t much intellectual investment in sports bloopers, say, or Mike Huckabee’s latest ‘is he joking?’ moment. Of late, however, two videos in particular have me wondering whether this online equivalent of kick-the-can might actually have some cataclysmic import on how we conceive of our idols: in this case, the charming, all-American pair of Tom Cruise and William F. Buckley...
...chance that what happens at the BAFTAs might actually make a difference. If an Oscar voter is sitting on the fence about a film, a BAFTA win could push them one way or the other. Of course, then there's the problem of trying to convince the silver screen elite to come to London in the middle of winter. There's only one solution: move the ceremony to Los Angeles. The British Academy already has an arm in L.A. and so many British actors and directors live in the States anyway. If Hollywood won't come to the BAFTAs, take...
...award going - and probably some that haven't even been invented yet - for his villain in No Country for Old Men. The leading actor award went to Daniel Day-Lewis, whose speech seemed designed to show everyone that he's not really as scary as he comes across on screen in There Will Be Blood: "Some of us put away childish things and some of us don't ... and [actors] need playmates, otherwise we're just playing with ourselves - and I've worked with some people who prefer to do that." Tilda Swinton won best supporting actress for her role...