Word: walls
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...Until I Read Michael Moore's piece on Bernie Madoff, I believed Moore was so misinformed and off the wall that if he said that gravity makes objects fall, I would stop believing in the laws of physics. I found myself agreeing with his every word. The managers and brokers who facilitated the greed should also be reviled. Ted Zaydel, Waterford, Mich...
...agree with it. I'm not there to pin someone to the wall. If I were to begin an interview with Nancy Pelosi and say, "Why did you lie about torture?" the last thing I will learn is the truth. I'd be putting them on the defensive to make me look good. At that point, they're a prop. To me, the guest is not a prop...
...Pixar for you. Unlike its rival, DreamWorks, the studio doesn't sell its movies with star voices. And the films' plots? At a typical Hollywood pitch meeting, the story of a rat let loose in a French restaurant (Ratatouille, 2007) or a lonely robot trash collector (last year's WALL-E) or, this time, a cranky old guy who won't leave his house would be greeted by stony silence. Even the crickets would walk out. Somehow, though, people know that a Pixar movie is worth seeing, worth paying...
...years it didn't win, it didn't release a film.) Pixar movies are not, however, the mammoth generators of box-office revenue that they used to be. The 2003 Finding Nemo earned $867 million worldwide - still tops for a Pixar feature - on a reported $94 million budget. WALL-E, which cost about twice as much to make, took in about 40% less. In worldwide ticket sales, the 1995 Toy Story, the studio's first feature, made more than 10 times its budget; WALL-E, about three times...
...November 2003, Paul McCartney released Let It Be ... Naked, which stripped much of Spector's Wall of Sound embellishments from the Beatles' final album, originally released in 1970. (See pictures of the Beatles' final performance...