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...Chinese gaga for little green men. In a country that bans "evil cults" and monitors faith in anything but the Communist Party, a belief in extraterrestrial life is one of the few fringe convictions that's been allowed to grow into an organized movement. The government-approved China UFO Research Center boasted 50,000 members and held annual conferences before splintering into competing factions three years ago. A 20-year-old Chinese bimonthly magazine about UFOs enjoys a circulation of 200,000. "We have so many visitation reports that if people don't have pictures, we won't bother investigating...
...Chinese fascination with interplanetary life isn't entirely new. Believers point to a 4th century text called the Collected Legacies, which describes a "moon boat" that floated above China every 12 years. Today's focus is on the science of UFOs-something tolerable to a Chinese Communist Party that advocates "scientific socialism." It helps that heavy hitters such as the former president of Beijing Aerospace University have long advised UFO-research organizations. The hard-science bent means it's acceptable to publish research on close-encounter stories. It's not O.K., however, to wonder if such stories result from people...
...depressive sense that "life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I didn't play them right." But the Coens do. They lay out their story in pearly, sepulchral black-and-white, infuse the dialogue with mordant wit and somehow blend those two postwar innovations, UFO mania and dry cleaning...
...month fans can enjoy the "ShirleyCam," which promises to follow the celestial-celeb on UFO stakeouts
Take a good look at the woman in the picture at left. Gaze into those brown UFO eyes, get a load of that Roman nose and those flaring lips, features that have been memorized by a global audience via Spanish films like Pedro Almodóvar's Live Flesh and All About My Mother, and Hollywood outings like Woman on Top and All the Pretty Horses. Now let us convince you that Penélope Cruz is (and this is the part that will throw you) average...