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...Kurdish Peshmerga commander on the Chamchamal front, was almost levitating with delight. A 17-mile stretch of the Iraqi front line near this town in northeast Iraq had, on Thursday afternoon, evaporated. Some 3,000 Iraqi troops left in the space of an hour, taking with them everything except some mortars and small arms, and pulling back 11 miles...
...spirit of wartime amity, I will dispense with the Mr. Blackwell segment of a post-Oscar article - except to say that Brody got lucky twice last night, kissing the "unbelievably hot" Halle Berry after arriving onstage to pick up his Oscar, and that if Julia Roberts loses any more weight and keeps wearing severe gowns, she will soon look like Sarah Jessica Parker's taller twin. I also award Steve Martin, the evening's host, a silver star (make that diamond; it's the 75th) for some "A" material in the opening monologue, and for deflecting both the solemnity...
...hardly say that about Michael Moore. In fact, there is not much reason that anyone cares about Michael Moore except for his political opinions. From "Roger and Me" through his Oscar-winning "Bowling for Columbine", his movie are less documentaries in the usual sense than artfully constructed and often hilariously funny editorials. Agree with him or not, he is, unlike Susan Sarandon, nothing if he is not a professional commentator; and thus it was not inherently stupid for him to make his speech...
...doing this. He's the guy who makes smart, touching, talky movies--The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist, Body Heat--not Dreamcatcher, the horror movie based on the 2001 Stephen King novel. "I read the book, and I thought, It's like a Kasdan story," the director says. "Except in my story they would go out in the woods and talk, and nothing would happen." But Kasdan was, after all, the writer of The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark before directing many of what he calls "general humanist comedies," and he wanted a break from...
...companies would eventually control the world economy in his Memoirs of the Twentieth Century--in 1733. Now, in The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, both editors at the Economist, take a Churchillian view: corporations are the worst form of economic organization, except for all the others. The book is an entertaining romp through the highs and lows of corporations since the first compagnia appeared in 12th century Italy. An 18th century British lord complained, "Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like...