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Back in the early 80s, the hit series Dallas kept the nation guessing with its season-ending cliffhanger Who Shot J.R.? Now, with a film version of Dallas starring John Travolta in development, the more appropriate question could be, Where to Shoot J.R.? If the filmmakers hope to tap into a new $22 million Texas fund aimed at boosting the state's film and computer-game industry, they'll have to agree to a controversial caveat, which denies support to any creative project that "portrays Texas or Texans in a negative fashion...
...Typically, animation requires much more work, ingenuity, precision than live action. Ani-makers essentially edit the movie before they shoot it. The process of transferring sketches or computer doodles to the screen is just too expensive, in money and time, that every frame must be conceived, designed and "performed" in advance. That's why their gestation is so long. Aachi & Ssipak took eight years to make; Ratatouille three years with the original director, Jan Pinkava, and two-plus with Bird, his replacement. You need the devotion and discipline of Cistercian monks, hundreds of them, to get a work of animation...
...example: AT&T's data network is slow (though it seems to be improving). It's a bummer that the camera doesn't shoot video. The glass touchscreen keyboard is kinda freaky (though if there was ever a moment for an ad campaign to license Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Put 'Em on the Glass," this is it). GPS would be nice. So would instant messaging. YouTube videos - in the little YouTube client Apple has ginned up - sound great but look lousy. And yeah, there's that content management quirk mentioned above...
...Kevin Durant: It's hard to say right now, but if I would pick anything, I would say I can shoot the ball, and score in many different ways. I can score posting up, going to the basket, or shooting the three. If I have a wide-open shot, I'm probably going...
...found 674 kg of high-grade cocaine. They drove the drugs and the two Colombian tenants to the police lockup, says Gabriel Madjanhe Djedjo, the judge who handled the case. Within an hour of the arrests, he says, military officers surrounded the compound, demanding the drugs and threatening to shoot their way in. The police relented, and the soldiers loaded the cocaine - stored in 1-kg packets - onto a pickup truck and drove it to the crumbling Treasury building, where they placed it in a locked vault. Within days, the entire load vanished. "The drugs were for [the military]," says...