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...million, 34-hectare shopping-and-entertainment complex, Madrid Xanadú. In addition to the ski slope, which has a run 250 m long and 55 m wide, covered in man-made snow and over 100 fake trees, the mall has 220 stores, 30 restaurants, a 15-screen movie theater and a 3,716-sq-m go-cart track. Nestled amid grassy hills, office parks and apartment blocks in a massive ring of suburban sprawl 24 km southwest of Madrid - joining the big-box Ikea and Media Markt that already line the highway - Xanadú is the largest shopping mall...
Director Peyton Reed (Bring It On) too often uses a gong where chimes would do, and his split-screen double entendres would have got Rock and Doris arrested. But Pierce is a perfect Tony Randall mimic in the hero's-pal role, down to the defeated slouch and the baritone whining. The film's costumes and design have a giddily precise exaggeration to them. And stay for the movie's denouement: a two-minute speech that wraps up the plot like Christmas ribbons around a time bomb...
...days in a normal fever emergency ward, where they were not as stringently isolated as they might have been at the hospital designated for suspected SARS patients. Says a frustrated Shanghai doctor: "If someone lies about where they've been, there's no way you can screen every SARS patient with 100% accuracy...
...entertainment." Worried about his reputation as a serious artist in the West, Murakami rattles off a list of departures he is now taking to maintain his high-art cred. For starters, he says, he is exploring traditional Japanese materials and motifs?updated twists on Buddha statues, scrollwork, calligraphy, screen painting and a 300-year-old dye technique called yuzenzome...
...part of accomplishing No. 2. What I would like to do now is break down the barrier between high and low art in the West." How he plans to accomplish No. 3 is not exactly clear. There are those traditional motifs he's working on, such as calligraphy and screen painting. And he mentions an animated feature film he would like to make. He doesn't know. He's still figuring it out. Overall, though, he likes his chances. "As a Japanese artist whose art is born in the chaos of an art scene without rules or distinctions, maybe...