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...Power of Nightmares, which traces the parallel inception and growth of Islamic fundamentalism and American neoconservatism, and diagnoses dire consequences from both. The film played like Fahrenheit 9/11, only cooler and way smarter. But it was shown out of competition, thus ineligible for a palm of any color. Cool is the temperature of the standard Cannes film. When a movie forthrightly engages the emotions - as Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born superbly did in its story of a boy lost at sea with a boatload of illegal immigrants - the critical consensus can be loud and derisive. (Literally...
Otto Fuerbringer, TIME's managing editor from 1960 to 1968, famously said of our brand of journalism, "It only has to be true this week." The cool thing about any diary is that it only has to be true today. In many blogs it doesn't have to be true...
...you’re so uncomfortable with public kissing. If it’s merely that you value your privacy, fine. But is it because you’re embarrassed? Or that it’s a public display of commitment (PDC) and you’re not cool with that...
...long leash. The sculptor turned around and hired a dozen extremely expensive boutique design firms to each come up with a design for the new Xbox. He then picked two winners, one from San Francisco and one from Osaka, Japan, and made them work together to build something cool yet approachable--"inviting" was the key concept. To make sure everything was absolutely as pretty as it could possibly be, he also hired a company that specializes entirely in color schemes. "Serious color meetings went down," Allard informs...
...final step in the process has nothing to do with what's inside the Xbox: Microsoft will have to make it cool. In addition to giving it that iPod-esque design, Peter Moore will run a very hip, very un-Microsoft ad campaign featuring quirky hipsters wearing the Xbox logo. Moore just threw the Xbox 360 the equivalent of a movie premiere: a party, broadcast on MTV, with Elijah Wood as host and featuring beyond-trendy rockers the Killers. For the Xbox 360's theme song, Moore licensed an obscure Sex Pistols B-side titled C'mon Everybody, with...