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...biggest basin lies well east of the Bay, in the broad delta formed by the convergence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. Among the most catastrophic consequences of a big earthquake in the Bay Area, says University of California at Davis geologist Jeffrey Mount, would be the failure of the delta's aging levee system, which protects not just farmland and residential areas but also the water supply for some 23 million people. Shaken hard enough, the foundations of the levees would crumple, and in a kind of hydrological chain reaction, brackish water from the Bay would surge inland...
...Signs,” the movie is only spooky when the villians are obscured, indefinite, and inexplicable. Once the monsters are revealed, there’s nothing left to your over-active imagination—and in Craven’s flick, there’s no Joaquin Phoenix eye-candy to make up for this lack of suspense...
...than Philip Seymour Hoffman, who?s much showier (and pretty swell too) as Truman Capote. Similarly, Reese Witherspoon, the world?s darling, may be seen as simply radiating star quality in her turn as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line. (We love her, but, honestly, the movie is Joaquin Phoenix?s show, and he isn?t given a chance to be named Best Actor...
...THIS FAR: He's one of three nominees to play a celebrity from the 1950s (the others: Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line and David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck), but Hoffman dominates his film with an eerie force of personality as surely as Truman Capote commandeered Kansas when he was there researching his seminal book. Hoffman begins by impersonating the writer--nailing his droll, spectacular effeminacy--then infiltrates and inhabits...
...Walk the Line: Joaquin Phoenix fit in great when he gave a show at Folsom Prison. 'Nuff said...