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...Troy’s father (Tom Hanks, both on screen and in reality) cannot understand his decision—and neither can the audience. Buck Howard (John Malkovich) is nasty in person and not very talented on stage. His signature fist pump of a handshake and the catchphrases that turn up in every performance quickly become tiresome. Buck’s story is based on the life of The Amazing Kreskin—the mentalist and TV performer who achieved a brief moment of fame in the 1970s—but Malkovich’s performance turns him into...
...psycho-clown who terrorizes children.The website makes such a ridiculous attempt at mythologizing that even Jerry McGuire might get a little embarrassed: “Three quarters of a million fans clearly feel the same way and their attention will now turn to the actual concerts, perhaps the most anticipated in history. Up there alongside Elvis Presley in Las Vegas, Michael Jackson is about to write a new chapter in entertainment folklore.”Beyond the predictable popstar hyperbole, the promotional material tries to show why literally the whole world will have some hyper-historical, folkloric obligation to paying...
...live with Dad”—the stubborn grandfather figure once again played by Alan Arkin.Mac’s suggestion that Rose quit her day job as a maid and become a different kind of cleaning lady offers both girls a chance to turn their lives around. Through shared triumph over hardship—disposing of everything from a finger to a maggot-infested paper bag—the girls move from insulting one another to forming a substantial and trusting relationship.The film’s premise, inspired by a National Public Radio report on two best...
...Pentagon is working to speed up the purhase of 6,000 or more of such lighter, more mobile transport called MRAP-ATVs (the initial-loving military's monikker for "Mine Resistant Ambush Protection All Terrain Vehicles"). The vehicles "will have a smaller turn radius and be capable of keeping up with some of the pickup trucks [run by insurgents] they may be chasing," says Gen. Robert Lennox, the U.S. Army's assistant deputy chief of staff for operations. The specifics required by the Army and the Marines are spelled out in the request for bids: blas-resistant, off-road vehicles...
...Late last year, after two years bloody occupation of Somalia, Ethiopia withdrew. Instead of creating a vacuum for the Shabaab to fill, as many feared, Menkhaus says Ethiopia's withdrawal allowed Somalis to turn their attention to their own internal enemies. "The Shabaab have been pushed back by Somali communities," he said. "Somalis do not want their version of government...