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...lose a little character nuance in "character capture"; they don't look quite real. But the effects scenes look realer, more integrated into the visual fabric, because they meet the traced-over live-action elements halfway. It all suggests that this kind of a moviemaking is more than a stunt. By imagining the distant past so vividly, Zemeckis and his team prove that character capture has a future...
...stunt, it turned out, had been organized by Greenpeace to protest an old industrial dump near Basel that was said to be leaking chemical waste into the groundwater. The barrel carried water from a source by the dump in which, protesters said, they had found traces of drugs made by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant that Vasella leads as chairman...
...exit on a high note,” Kasper says. If only Høeg had followed his advice rather than leaving us hoping for the end 100 pages before it actually comes. Circus-clown Kasper Krone provides Høeg with a highly entertaining protagonist as he performs stunt after stunt after stunt—even with his skull cracked open and a bullet wound clear through his midriff. But the novel is overly centered around him and preoccupied with proving to us just how cool he is: yes, he is a smooth talker; yes, he has sex appeal...
Colbert’s candidacy may be more publicity stunt than anything else, but the sentiment behind it is genuine. This mock-run is not the first manifestation of a surprisingly widespread desire to put Colbert or his fellow fake news show host Jon Stewart in the White House. (A popular line of “Stewart-Colbert ’08” t-shirts already surfaced earlier this fall.) Certainly the belief that Colbert and Stewart could fix the nation’s political woes is a fantasy, but perhaps it’s a more compelling fantasy...
...Sunday morning in February 2006, Romney personally taped handwritten notes to the doors of senate president Robert Travaglini and house speaker Salvatore DiMasi, begging them not to let this opportunity die. The speaker, for one, wasn't impressed. "A cheap publicity stunt," DiMasi says. Recognizing the limits of his own influence, Romney turned to Kennedy once again. "I asked for his help on certain legislators: 'Could you give a call on this one?'" Romney says. On March22, 2006, Kennedy did more than that. He went to the floor of both the house and the senate on Beacon Hill...