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This much we know about enigmatic auteur Tim Burton's movie Big Fish, which opens Thanksgiving weekend: it contains a car, a tree and EWAN MCGREGOR. The plot revolves around an old man (Albert Finney) who tells tall tales about himself as a younger man (that would be McGregor), but little else is clear. Is it a fairy tale? "I always like a mixture of all of those elements--funny, sad, real, unreal, all together," says Burton. "I find that's the most accurate description of how I feel every day." Fair enough. So is it a comedy? "I prefer...
Islands of urban heat can do funny things with weather. Hot city air, like hot air anywhere else, rises--even more so because of the turbulence caused by tall buildings. When that air is damp enough and collides with colder layers above it, water can condense out as a sudden burst of rain, especially if there are few frontal systems to disrupt the layers, as in summer. In a spot storm above a city or just downwind of it, it's likely that nature alone isn't behind the downpour...
...straight nightlife. Beautiful young girls in short dresses are dancing to techno with their boyfriends at the Water Bar disco in Chinatown on a Saturday night, right next to a group of funky gay Asians, while a more mature Caucasian in black is doing Mick Jagger imitations with a tall, brush-cut young Chinese in baggy jeans. But wander over to Taboo, the must-go, packed-out gay disco on Tanjong Pagar, and you will find a bevy of gay teenagers from every race bopping on a podium in the corner and half the room full of guys with their...
...rewards, it should never have embarked on this adventure in the first place. And if Americans are unhappy that their leaders have placed members of the armed forces in so dangerous a situation, and want to get them home, the remedy lies in the voting booth--not in a tall building on the bank of New York City's East River...
...cowboy (Chris Cooper) and a rich dilettante named Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), who nurse him back to health. They need a rider who can handle him. Enter Maguire as Red Pollard, a bitter, washed-up jockey who was abandoned by his parents as a kid, then grew up too tall to make the big time. Along the way, Pollard lost the sight in one eye, and by the time Team Seabiscuit finds him he's boxing on the side (and losing) to make ends meet. Writer-director Gary Ross, who directed Maguire in Pleasantville, wrote the role...