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...betrothal of director TIM BURTON and LISA MARIE, his alien in Mars Attacks! and TV vamp in Ed Wood, made odd sense. Who else could be Burton's wacky muse? Three words: HELENA BONHAM CARTER. The monkey business didn't start until after the release of Burton's film Planet of the Apes, in which Bonham Carter (left, at the movie's premiere) and Marie played foxy simians. (During the shoot, notes Bonham Carter's rep, "she was in latex from head to toe.") That's the way things began between Bonham Carter and then-married Kenneth Branagh too, after...
...nothing more than rehash its overworked idiosyncrasies. Foreign literary types, humorists, and historians have worked their way across America before and have produced clever books, such as Andrei Codrescu’s Road Scholar. The wit, however, emanated from those authors’ ability to penetrate into the truly odd, to show how it was also truly American, and finally explain how the bizarre might make sense in a proper American context...
...nothing more than rehash its overworked idiosyncrasies. Foreign literary types, humorists and historians have worked their way across America before and have produced clever books, such as Andrei Codrescu’s Road Scholar. The wit, however, emanated from those authors’ ability to penetrate into the truly odd, to show how it was also truly American, and finally explain how the bizarre might make sense in a proper American context...
Unfortunately, the sorry trend of commercial exploitation of Sept. 11 does not end with the car manufacturers. AT&T now runs a somber advertisement where 20-odd pale blue place names flash up on a white screen, starting with the sites of the three plane crashes and ending up around the world. The slogan “the power to unite is greater than the power to divide” fades away into the AT&T logo. Consumers are clearly supposed to heed the implied message—because Sept. 11 demonstrated the importance of tolerance and multi-culturalism, everyone...
...area around ground zero is an odd combination of makeshift shrine and museum. Each intersection going down Broadway has been blocked off by a fence covered with pictures and cards, and each provides a different glimpse into the Twin Towers wreck. Some views are better than others—John Street and Dey Street are particularly good—and hundreds of tourists move from block to block and stare as if they were moving from exhibit to exhibit at the Met. There are signs prohibiting video and photography but, just like at any NYC tourist attraction that forbids them...