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...perhaps at the moment when the entire principal cast has been pointlessly drenched in water for the millionth time, you may feel the need for a consoling thought. Here it is: The apparently inexorable march of the sequels (Spidey 3, Shrek the Third already, with Ocean's Thirteen and Bourne something or other speeding toward us, all began with a pretty novel, (or at least entertaining) first film. You can extend that observation to lots of other series-Superman, Batman, Die Hard (which is also being recycled in a few weeks...
...director Steven Soderbergh, and his actors and his crew, this time it's mechanical. They must think that the only way get from Eleven to Twelve to Thirteen is to make movies by the numbers. Let's hope that, in naming future sequels, they don't start counting backward; the whole audience will be in a trance or asleep by Nine. The new film is so listless and logy it needed Michael Moore to take it to Cuba for emergency medical treatment...
...summer-movie preview that ran last week on TIME.com, I speculated about Ocean's Thirteen: "If Take 3 is a reasonable facsimile of its predecessors, it will be like one of those elite parties you're dying to attend because of the killer guest list; then you get in and find that, for all the star glamour in evidence, the ambiance is somehow... lacking." Turns out my hopes were too high. It's as if the whole enterprise were running on battery power that was about to give out. The five big stars can't shake the movie's infectious...
...main island. Using land it had been reclaiming since the 1970s, the government several years ago began auctioning Sentosa plots to the private sector, but only to be developed under its careful guidance and marketing. Beaches that ringed the island were spruced up, and two golf courses modernized. Thirteen hotels containing about 3,500 rooms are planned, providing lodging for tourists drawn to the beaches, the casino and a Universal Studios theme park, which is also being built by Genting International and is slated to open...
...message he sent his dad, dated April 3, Starcevich describes surviving three IED blasts and an ambush in a single day. "Man I tell U what," he wrote. "Somebody wants me alive. I just wonder how many more times I can roll the dice b4 I get a shitty #." Thirteen days later, a roadside bomb killed Starcevich in Baghdad...