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...come out with a film that has "Billion Dollar Baby" stamped all over it. "Star Wars" is a rousing crowdpleaser, a reaffirmation that the good guys still win some of the time, and an affectionate needle at the legendary Flash Gordon movies of yesteryear all wrapped into one very slick package. And while devotees of the sci-fi movie genre may not take too kindly to the implicit parody of their chosen cult contained in Lucas' film, the dazzling special effects of "Star Wars" by themselves should prove sufficient to eclipse any lingering qualms they might experience about this decidedly...
...since that is pretty much the permanent condition of most of the population. But Hannibalsson's administration has embittered Freeland's young people by severely limiting the amount of rock 'n' roll played on the national radio station. Opposition coalesces around this offense against social justice. A team of slick political consultants arrives from the U.S. to connive against the incumbent...
...Slick and sexy, Guess?, Inc.'s long-cultivated image began turning seedy last summer. First, five contractors for the $500 million clothing empire were cited by California inspectors for illegal home-sewing operations. Then a class-action suit accused Guess and 16 subcontractors of paying their mostly immigrant workers less than minimum wage. Ornery picket lines spread from Guess's shop on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive to its 66 other retail outlets across the country. And in a final one-two punch, the National Labor Relations Board forced the firm to rehire employees it had fired for union sympathizing, while...
...prelude to self-immolation. Case in point: Jerry Maguire (a superb Tom Cruise). Soon after he calls on his colleagues in a sports agency to consider human values as well as the bottom line, he gets fired. Spinning his wheels wildly, he seeks moral traction in an icy-slick world, aided by his one remaining client (a testy Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his sole employee (Renee Zellweger, fierce and mousy). Blending romance and realism, writer-director Cameron Crowe achieves the kind of confident, endearing comedy you would've sworn Hollywood had lost the knack of making...
...engineering isn't art, and I think my friends may be overreacting. Too much of MSN's stuff is slick but unexciting. The best thing I saw was a little Gumby-like character that a kid on the tech side had built out of clay at home for fun and then modeled in his workstation, making it do amazing tricks. The day Microsoft figures out how to get that thing out of the kid's computer and onto the Net is the day my friends should start looking for a new line of work...