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This is Clooney doing a De Niro, growing a beard and cocooning himself in flab. The actor must want to prove that his star quality is more than just Cary Grant looks and a stud's sly aplomb. It is. Here he seduces the viewer into looking closer, to catch the eye glint of skeptical intelligence, the interior burden that a samurai for the CIA bears with weary grace, and for reasons he may have forgotten or never known...
Bernoff says the new formats could include ads, as CBS's do. Video clips at websites like MTV's and CNN's, he notes, include spots that sell for a higher rate per viewer than TV equivalents. And selling shows could diversify the revenue streams of a business that's almost wholly dependent on Madison Avenue--which, with more viewers using digital video recorders like TiVo to skip commercials, is already threatening to pull money from TV and put it into other media...
...enough people buy into the system, it could change the equation that determines a hit. Forrester estimates, for example, that Desperate Housewives earns ABC about 45˘ in advertising per viewer per episode, but clears the network about triple that when sold through iTunes. So if you buy the show, you are literally three times as important as someone watching for free. If watching VOD became widespread enough, the business model of "free" TV would be a little more like HBO's--in which what counts is not getting a lot of people to watch your show but getting a relative...
...backbone and more than a little hormonal voltage for good measure. The film’s PG-13 rating is well-deserved. In his fourth year, Harry participates in the Triwizard Tournament—a sadistic series of tasks to win the Goblet of Fire—taking the viewer along for a terrifying ride including dragons and carnivorous caverns. Along with these visually rich action scenes are moments of awkward adolescent romance, such as the Yule Ball, an event like Eliot Fete on anabolics, replete with a rave-out performance by the paler members of Radiohead and Pulp.Humor keeps...
...characters’ emotions remain as distant as at the opening credits. The film informs a Western audience on the teachings of Orthodox Judaism and is generally entertaining, but it fails as the comedy it is trying to be. “Ushpizin” leaves the viewer only temporarily fulfilled by its moral premise; those looking for a deeper religious experience or explanation of tradition should head to shul...