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...diminished returns for MI3 had less to do with the director's stewardship than with Tom Cruise's waning star power. On his Enterprise enterprise Abrams summoned Leonard Nimoy out of a black hole to play an elder Mr. Spock, and Eric Bana, star of the lambasted Ang Lee version of The Hulk, for the bad-guy role of Nero. But Chris Pine (young Kirk) and Zachary Quinto (young Spock) are actors not previously seen on a movie marquee; they might not even be in FaceBook. The film's biggest on-screen name is probably Winona Ryder, hard to recognize...
...original version of this article wrongly took to task the Mexican celebrity magazine TVnotas for its use of the term "in fragranti" instead of "in flagrante." The term the magazine actually, and rightly, used was "in fraganti," which can be Mexican slang for "caught red-handed...
...Republican revolutionaries of 1994 who kept faith with the Contract with America. Back then, his bumper stickers said "Deficit" with a Ghostbusters-style slash through it, and his apocalyptic speeches chronicled how debt had destroyed great civilizations like the Byzantine Empire. I watched him give an updated version at a tea-party rally in Columbia, S.C., on April 15 as the crowd screamed about Obama's tyranny and waved signs like "Keep the Government Out of Our Health Care" and "USA 1776-2009, RIP." Sanford himself is not a screamer; he's a provocateur. "We've become a party...
...initial version of this article wrongly stated that Saberi was born in Belleville, North Dakota...
...With impeccable timing, Abrams welcomes the rest of the old crew of the Enterprise, young and fresh again, one by one to his dance floor. First up is Spock (Zachary Quinto, a slightly sexier version of Leonard Nimoy), who was bullied on Vulcan for having a human mother (Winona Ryder, seemingly still in character and costume from a Grey Gardens audition) and chose to take refuge in the Starfleet Academy. Then comes Uhura (Zoe Saldana), who rejects Kirk's leering come-on with just the crisp efficiency you'd expect...