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...pads. Tripp and his buddies have it great: they don’t have to do laundry, clean up after themselves, or go grocery shopping. The only catch is that their parents sleep in the next room. One might expect this wholly contrived premise of manipulation and sugary-sweet trickery to exhaust itself, as romantic comedies often do, but surprisingly it holds up. Screenwriters Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember, whose previous credits include a plethora of sitcoms and the upcoming film adaptation of “Get Smart,” take obvious elements from their television experience...
WOULD YOU EVER DO ANOTHER MOVIE? SOUTH PARK OR OTHERWISE? T.P. The only way we'd do it is if we were sitting around and were like, "That's a sweet idea for a movie." A lot of the South Park episodes we've done could have probably been really good movies. M.S. We have a hungry baby we have to feed. South Park takes every idea...
...late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man--celebrity, charisma, holiness or, at least, a huge friendliness. But just there, floating from the left of the frame...
...product of violence and its perpetrator, he should be doubly twisted. "What was done to me was monstrous!" V snarls. "And they created a monster," Evey replies. But if V plays as a Phantom of the Opera monster, a Beauty and the Beast monster, a monster with a sweet, sad center, he becomes less than he should be: a mere action hero. Maybe that's a lot of nuance to ask of an action movie, but terrorism is a subject that demands nothing less. Give poor, tortured V back his goodness, and you take away his greatness...
...TIPS right for you? On the surface, they certainly seem like a sweet deal. Inflation poses the biggest risk to the wealth of anyone investing in government bonds. That's because those bonds pay a fixed interest rate over a long period, and the value of any fixed-income stream erodes as inflation rises. But TIPS come with a twice-a-year adjustment that raises their value at the rate of inflation. You get the yield on top of that. That feature makes TIPS ideal for conservative investors who will hold their bonds to maturity and just want to make...