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...test-markets his every utterance, whereas President George W. Bush, love him or hate him, comes across as a man who means what he says and doesn't stick his finger in the air checking to see which way the wind is blowing before he speaks. Nicky Billou Toronto...
...Canada, in September, a few hundred thousand or so otherwise sensible folks spend 10 days and nights dreaming movies. The Toronto International Film Festival, which wrapped its 29th annual session on September 18, showcased 253 features and 75 shorts, with screenings that began at 9 a.m. and kept going until the climax of a Midnight Madness movie?say, the Japanese Zebraman, Takashi Miike's zesty tribute to a nerdy superhero that had the crowd la-la-ing along to its theme song at two in the morning...
...Several other Asian films made sweet music in Toronto. One was Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, which had its world premiere here, but without the presence of its director-star, who could not get a visa in time. No matter. The audience went nuts, cheering each set piece of whirling action, choreographed by Yuen Wo-ping and Sammo Hung. The film may not break Asian box-office records, as Chow's Shaolin Soccer did. But it's much better: handsomely designed and shot, full of knowledgeable nostalgia for the old Shaw Brothers martial-arts films, and engagingly played...
...Canada today is not rural China 30 years ago. But the Toronto Festival faithful, seduced by cinema, are a lot like Ling Ling, who thinks of films as a window to the past, to a true movie community?when "the people on screen, their images and voices, brought us all together. Breathing as one. Dreaming...
...arrogantly abused the people's trust in a recent spending scandal. We now have our government in check once again. Perhaps moderates in the U.S. - both Democratic and Republican - could branch off and form a useful new party that would bring about meaningful change to U.S. politics. Rich Kraemer Toronto Debating His Chances In his viewpoint "The Case For Bush" [Sept. 6], Charles Krauthammer argued that after the President's success in Afghanistan and a continued hunt for al-Qaeda, he could have sat back for two years and "coasted to re-election." But what about all those other issues...