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...elfin winter wonderland is followed by clips of elves working in Santa’s factory, followed by scenes of elves shopping in the town square—all set to the tune of sleigh bell-heavy music. This time around, though, our first view of the ideal Santa-land is bathetic—the anti-Emerald City revealed, if you will. As the Santa theme has provided the basis for so many well known Hollywood films, one would think that the focus of the director and writers of “Fred Claus” would be to distinguish...
...Billy Bob Thorton-directed effort “All the Pretty Horses”. Consequently, one might expect that Hollywood would once again mishandle the work of one of the literary geniuses of the last century. In the hands of Joel and Ethan Coen, however, these suspicions could not land further from the truth. “No Country for Old Men,” an adaptation of McCarthy’s 2005 novel, will disappoint few. After a stunning string of flops, including 2003’s “Intolerable Cruelty” and 2004?...
Mass extinctions 65 million years ago enabled larger mammals to take over the land. At the time, India was not yet part of the Asian landmass...
...fidelity to the rule of law” as paramount among the reasons he endorsed him. Yet the purpose of the Justice Department is to enforce the law. Respect for the law is surely a basic requirement for any nominee for the highest law enforcement post in the land, not a reason to heap on the accolades...
...Sauer's first destinations was California, where he briefly took a job at a San Diego software company; Merkel visited him there before they were married. Merkel's "very positive image of America," says Langguth, dates from that period. During her first trip, "she gushed about the land of opportunity," says Langguth...