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...Viva España! From the green valleys to the vast sea, a hymn of brotherhood." After four months, six experts, and 7000 entries to propose lyrics for the Spanish national anthem, one might be forgiven for asking: is that really the best they...
Then again, it's hard to make a feel-good war movie when a country's reputation falls as its body count rises. The U.S. hasn't had a clear, exhilarating win since World War II. (The 1991 Gulf War doesn't count, since it lasted little longer than Viva Laughlin.) So The Kingdom tried to find an old-fashioned upside by dispatching Jamie Foxx and his FBI team to find the Arabic villains and kill 'em all--a fantasy solution to a real dilemma...
...That's why modern Elvis fans ignore most of his 31 Hollywood movies, except for the 1957 Jailhouse Rock (with its wild and crazy production number for the title song) and the 1964 Viva Las Vegas (where the feral Ann-Margret compels him to unleash some of the old animal urges). Today his most popular DVD titles are the ones that show him in unbridled action: the documentary This Is Elvis and the concert film Elvis: That's the Way It Is. They also allow the faithful to plunge more deeply into the sacred mystery that is St. Elvis...
...long after we invented fast food, we ran out of Americans to serve it to, so we opened McDonald's on the Champs Elysées, in Tokyo's Ginza district and in Guatemala City's Zona Viva. Then those countries opened competitors--local fast-food restaurants making burgers, chicken wings and fries. And now those mimeographed restaurants are opening franchises...
...supporters. Many residents of the town sympathized with Reinado, who has been a focus of anti-government feeling since he led a mass desertion from the Army last April. When he and his men took over a house on a hill overlooking the town, groups of young men wrote VIVA ALFREDO on walls, held a sit-in at the crossroads about 100 m below the house, and set up roadblocks on the streets leading...