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...Minister Nawaz Sharif, and is home to plenty of Bhutto supporters as well. In a place that's so heavily anti-Musharraf, innuendo seems to feed on itself. On the city's main street, lined with policemen holding batons and wearing anti-riot gear, two teenagers out for a walk say they have also heard about a possible government connection to the attack but cannot offer any evidence to back up the claims. "My mother told me not to talk about this topic on my mobile or telephone because the government may tape it," says Hafiz Jamshaid, 18, a computer...
...almost pre-moral innocence about his soft and squishy mug, a heedless exuberance in his playing. He's happy to play dumb - allowing Dewey to live profitably within the unexamined premises, the mythic fatuity, of his media-driven myth. Like the other films Apatow has been involved with, Walk Hard is a clever blend of very broad, occasionally raunchy gag-smithing and an unspoken, yet palpable, social shrewdness. For the moment, at least, this guy is somehow plugged into our half-formed, half-subversive thoughts. Walk Hard is actually talking about - well, all right, goofily alluding to - serious issues, though...
...That's all right with me. But I do think Walk Hard is a rather more dubious box office proposition than something like Knocked Up. Satire is ever a tough sell to the populist audience, which prefers sentiments of a more uplifting kind, while the crowd that might get a kick out of this film it will likely dismiss it as kid stuff. But call me a cynic, call me a curmudgeon, call me perverse - I loved every moment of Dewey Cox's story. I hope I'm not alone in that feeling...
...guilt, the self-destructive drinking, drugging and sexual outlawry that sully his path to pop icon status, the bum musical trips - his adored brother may have been an authentic musical prodigy that Dewey dimly needs to emulate - that threaten his career. You've been here before, of course, with Walk the Line and Ray, to name only the most recent biopics about the trials and triumphs of pop-music icons. These movies, ritualistically recycling their subjects' most famous hits and their more infamous falls from behavioral grace, provide the last sentimental postscripts to their subjects' celebrity arcs. They have...
...decision leaves little doubt that the Bush Administration, with a year left in office, has no interest in meeting environmentalists halfway - or perhaps, at all. "This is the Administration showing its true colors," says Robinson. "They're attempting to undercut progress even as they get ready to walk out the White House doors." Change is on its way, but 2008 may be a lost year for global warming, at the very moment when we can't afford to lose...