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...election season looming, no one wants to run as the guy who spent the rainy day savings account. But at least that would be spending money for its original purpose. Blowing 25 years of tobacco money on the first recession that comes along makes the entire settlement a lie. Tobacco companies misled smokers for years about the consequences of their products. The settlement freed them from the threat of devastating lawsuits, but with the understanding that their own money would be used to keep the next generation away from cigarettes. Now that's being abandoned in statehouses around the country...
...Architectural whimsy has been given full flight in the design of the hotel, which is shaped like a crocodile. Rest assured, normal facilities, including a central courtyard with shaded swimming pool, an outdoor barbecue area and a restaurant offering gourmet bush tucker (Ozspeak for outback specialties) lie within. Doubles, including a full buffet breakfast, are $75 a night...
...four-year prison sentence in July for forging a diary 14 years ago and concocting a story as unbelievable as one of his novels. To counter a prostitute's accusation of a sexual encounter and win a libel suit against a British tabloid, Archer had persuaded a friend to lie for him and had created a host of false journal entries to nullify the working girl's claims. More than a decade later, his friend, after a falling out with Archer, confessed his role...
...lie from Montmartre A shy girl with a runaway imagination (Audrey Tautou) forces magic on all those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment - and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...
...Ghost World An Amélie with attitude, teen Enid (the frighteningly assured Thora Birch) adopts orphan things and people in order to make fun of them. This daringly undarling comedy, from director Terry Zwigoff and comix writer Daniel Clowes, shows just how furtive and morose an ordeal growing up can be. It's a Heathers for the 9/11 Generation...