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...FILES The Devil and Mr. Jackson; Or the Spider Made...
Anyone who doubts that MICHAEL JACKSON can still influence popular culture should consider this: before last month, the world had never heard the term baby dangling, but since Jackson appeared on a Berlin balcony with his infant son, it has become part of the vernacular. So one wonders how long it will be before impressionable youth start hobbling around on crutches. That is how Jackson arrived last week at a courthouse in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he is being sued for $21 million by a concert promoter who contends that the singer broke his contract by canceling two shows. Jackson...
...where were we? Oh - right here! Like a parent reading his children their favorite story, Peter Jackson begins The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second in his adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, just about where the first one left off. No brief synopsis of the dozens of major characters introduced a year ago in The Fellowship of the Ring, or of the great quest they are bound to serve or thwart. Instead, director and co-writer Jackson begins Part II with a flashback to a literal cliff-hanger: the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) clinging...
...work with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who has shot many of Wong Kar-wai's films. Zhang, of course, controlled the design of Hero, but Doyle's hurtling, poetic personality shines through; you can sense the camera in his hands as surely as you could feel the brush in Jackson Pollock's. He is a calligrapher with light...
...particularly in the last decade, with an entrepreneurial vengeance. The state's per-capita-income-growth rate over the past decade has been 16 percent above the national average, and 70 Fortune 500 companies maintain manufacturing operations in the Magnolia State. Forbes magazine recently ranked the Gulf Coast and Jackson as two of the best places to do business in America. The state will provide the central hub of the NAFTA railway corridor, and its first-rate port facilities on three commercial waterways offers economical and efficient access to national and international markets. Mississippi's economic development is based...