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...policy prescriptions--re-emerged at an unscripted education forum outside Detroit. At one point, Dole missed a questioner's thrust entirely but smiled goofily as Michigan Governor John Engler preposterously declared Dole's response "right on." Sensing disaster, Engler moved to end the torture and asked Dole to "wrap up." Unprepared, Dole said he would "yield my time" to others in the audience. When Engler tried again later, Dole blandly read from a crib sheet and won only tepid applause from the carefully screened G.O.P. crowd...
...with two of him, he can't handle taking care of the kids. The second Doug, who takes over the construction job, becomes macho and tough. The third Doug is a sensitive, caring type who is worried about his inner child and obsessive about the proper way to foil-wrap meatloaf. The fourth Doug is, well, special, shaving his tongue and slurping pizza...
...screen: the spastic freak-boy Spud (Ewen Bremmer); wanna-be Eurotrash, Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller); and the human pitbull (and unintelligible) Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Wandering about, shooting up, picking women up, and so go their days and nights. They even throw in a drug deal to wrap things up. Unfortunately--almost tragically, fizzing with this much energy and hype--the film quickly tosses out the window any pretentions to portraying addiction or free-wheeling, troubled youth. Adapted from the popular Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, it hasn't so much lost something in the translation as added...
...SIMPSONS Audiences aren't exactly having a cow; the clan was an underachiever in ratings wrap...
Showtime in the Cu Chi tunnelplex was usually around 7 p.m. Thanh's projection crew would wrap up their daytime activities (foraging, digging, shooting at helicopters, etc.), descend underground and prepare for the evening's unspooling. Shortly thereafter, the audience, bubbling with anticipation, would arrive through the various connecting tunnels. On movie night, the entire population of a small hamlet would simply vanish underground. Up to 100 guerrillas and their families would cram into the dank screening chamber, taking pains not to sit on any poisonous vipers. (The moviegoers would try to ignore the rats, which were tolerated...