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...Pixar's all-time box-office champ, Finding Nemo--showed the first reels of WALL?E to the studio's brain trust three years ago, fellow auteur Brad Bird (The Incredibles) told him, "Man, you didn't make it easy for yourself." A movie that shows but doesn't tell, and whose leading characters are essentially mimes, could put an end to the eight-film box-office winning streak that began with Toy Story in 1995 and continued unbroken through last year's Ratatouille. To sell the project, Stanton had only his faith in the idea, and the collaboration...
...campaign against Michael Dukakis around the Pledge of Allegiance and a furloughed convict named Willie Horton--was also someone peddling decency as part of his official persona. History shows that any candidate who relies on the voters to punish a swift-boater is going to be disappointed. People tell pollsters they are sick of nasty politics, then they respond to it every time...
...would have been interesting to see what Call Girl would have made of a character like this. As it is, it's just a tale of one woman, which doesn't pretend to tell us anything universal about the world's oldest profession. Except, perhaps, what TV shows like Top Chef have been telling us for a while now: that the customer-service business is hard work...
...price of fruits and vegetables rose 74.6%, while the price of fats fell 26.5%.) Supermarkets, where better choices are found, are three times as common in neighborhoods that are in the highest quintile of income as they are in communities in the lowest quintile. "What good is it to tell people they need to eat fresh produce if you have to take three buses to get apples?" asks Drewnowski. And if your parents are working long hours to pay the monthly bills, he notes, "making sure you have a salad at the end of the day is not the highest...
...Munich Olympics. As he reported the story over 16 uncertain hours, McKay was calm, capable and compassionate--and thinking of the parents of Israeli weight-lifter David Berger, an American who had immigrated to Israel. "I knew," he said, "that I would be the one to tell them if their son was alive or dead." When that terrible moment came, McKay looked into the camera. "My father used to say our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized," he said softly. Then, "They're all gone." It was an exquisite blend of professionalism and humanity...