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...technology, besides allowing these tin-britched anal retentives to bleach E.T. of any distressing theme, is that it diminishes the performative aspect of movies. In Sean Penn’s recent movie The Pledge, Robin Wright Penn was digitally given a gap tooth in post-production. Every move, every twitch, is perfectly calculated. No longer do actors interact with the special effects—they are the special effects...
...about Jessica, our first grandchild (have a cigar; no, don't), who was born on March 1, just under 7 lbs. and 19 in. big. I hold her on the couch as she sleeps swaddled--part baby, part blanket--in the crook of my arm. Her harpist's fingers twitch in independent dreams. The threads of blue veins above her barely visible eyebrows run like rivers on a map. It comes back to you, holding babies--the surprisingly substantial weight...
...middle third respond to issues of economic unfairness. They may reject leftist class-warfare rhetoric, but they get a scrupulous twitch when people with plenty of money seem to be having too much of a party while the markets dive, and too many others seem to be sleeping under bridges. Bush's tax cut and his banker-friendly plan to make bankruptcy tougher may lead the middle third to think they are watching a Charlie Chaplin movie...
...cylindrical pods are a contorted mannequin's torso, several fake strands of DNA and blinking white Christmas tree lights. Flanked by lesser television personalities and second-tier celebrities, Beat Takeshi presides on TV Tackle as the highest of Japanese pop culture royalty, an imperious entertainer whose every twitch and tick and grunt and sniffle elicit commentary and kudos. The show is standard Japanese chat show fodder: ribald commentary on issues of societal import, with plenty of carousing and bit comedy thrown in. So typical is TV Tackle of what dominates Japan's airwaves?it's one of seven Beat vehicles...
...entertainment of a nation of groundlings. And television's bottom-feeding, bottom-lining imperatives (a noisy swordplay of issues for the simple-minded masses, translated to high ratings and profits) have conspired with the instantaneous capabilities of the Web. Rage fires and cross-fires through the ether at the twitch of a billion mouse-fingers to create toxic political weather systems, an atmosphere of unthinking scorn, slur and shallow but blinding indignation...