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...starkest evidence that we are living on short rations came in recent days with the events of Ratgate. Journalists who should have known better - and would have, if there were any controlling grown-up authority on the National Desk, any intelligent superego left to say, "Spike it, it's a phony" - worked themselves into a state about the idea that the Bush people had commissioned a campaign ad containing the word "RATS," subliminally flashed on the screen in the midst of a discussion of "bureaucRATS" or? "DemocRATS."? The diabolical idea (a brainwashing trick that the GOP's mind-control people...
...best Gore film was barely seen at all. It was created by Spike Jonze, the 29-year-old director of Being John Malkovich, a surreal movie about people getting inside a celebrity's head. No wonder it's a Gore favorite. (Bush's most recent favorite is Forrest Gump.) After using a handheld camera to shoot the Gores at their Tennessee farm and a North Carolina beach house, Jonze came up with a deftly cut montage of Gore kicking back and having fun. He makes Tipper blush by showing off the nude self-portrait she painted when pregnant with Karenna...
...this year, that has meant $120 billion in transactions. And when you're running the network, all sorts of profitable opportunities arise. Last week, when word spread that natural-gas prices would spike this winter, Enron's in-house traders saw their gains surge as customers raced to lock in future supplies at today's prices. And Enron's stock price? It hit $90 last week, tripling its value of a year ago. Kind of like an Internet play, only better...
...with great amusement that I read Spike Lee's misinformed comments about the movie The Patriot, which is set during the American Revolution [PEOPLE, July 17]. Lee said, "I kept wondering, Where are all the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" As any schoolboy knows, cotton did not become king in the South until after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, in early 1793, several years after the events portrayed in the movie. STANLEY W. KANDEBO Newtown...
...Spike on Slavery...