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...when Disney and Pixar sounded a death knell for antiquated hand-drawn cartoons with Toy Story 2. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, opening in July, stars a cast of disconcertingly realistic CGI humans. In Steven Spielberg's A.I., opening this week, a teddy bear comes to life, and Haley Joel Osment communes with eerie, translucent aliens. As a robot, Osment never blinks because of his Stanislavskian discipline - and because the special-effects wizards at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) removed more than a dozen blinks from his scenes...
...kept playing and chatting for hours that night. Around four in the morning he called his pal Joey Reynolds, the all-night radio host, to say that Billy Joel and the James Brown horn section had showed up at his birthday party. He was just kidding, or wishing. But who needed them when two legends were filling that tiny stage? A living legend, Les Paul, and the precious memory of his partner. He closed the first set that night with the plaintive ballad 'Just One More Chance.' He was playing it, he said, 'in remembrance of my partner Mary...
...Nobody has picked up any of my quotes yet. In fact I'm having a hard time getting the studios to plunk down $50,000 for the newspaper. But no one on my staff is doing it for the money. Like Gene Shalit and Joel Siegel before us, we just get a big kick out of seeing our names in the paper. That's what drives people like us into this business. That and the free popcorn...
Nobody has picked up any of my quotes yet. In fact I'm having a hard time getting the studios to plunk down $50,000 for the newspaper. But no one on my staff is doing it for the money. Like Gene Shalit and Joel Siegel before us, we just get a big kick out of seeing our names in the paper. That's what drives people like us into this business. That and the free popcorn...
...beguile some viewers, perplex others. Its vision is too capacious, its narrative route too extended, the shift in tone (from suburban domestic to rural nightmare to urban archaeology) too ornery to make the film a flat-out wowser of the E.T. stripe. A.I. boasts a beautiful central performance - Haley Joel Osment, 13, plays David with a kind of buoyant gravity - and a canny turn by Jude Law as a robo-stud, while other actors are wan. The film is bold, rigorous and sentimental by turns, and often all at once, as should be expected from a two-man movie where...