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...side, the same old mantra of taxes, taxes, taxes seems to be the leading song choice. This would seem odd now, given the obscene prosperity that has been generated over the past half decade. Not that taxes don't make for great political fodder. It is just that at a time when people are doing well and America is preeminent in the world both economically and militarily, a government-bashing tax cut doesn't seem like the most sellable line. Equally important, to be sure, is the important issue of health care. Democrats are right to seek out the high...
...Gore has his devil of weirdness, this peculiarly uncomfortable internal something that reminds one, at odd moments, of a shinier, buffed-up version of Richard Nixon and his sweating upper lip and the disconnect between his words and his flashing, inappropriate smile...
...seem sure to be the stuff of urban legend. And yet, as the unidentified narrator assures, they are absolute fact. "These strange things happen all the time," he offers with an invisible smirk. Inventive and charmingly frank as this introduction is, what's even craftier is that no such odd confluence of circumstance proceeds to occur in any one of the eight intersecting storylines that make up the rest of the film. In fact, in all three, thoroughly engaging hours, it's amazing to note that almost nothing happens...
...Yeah, it's odd... This was a very challenging movie for all of us to make after the kind of picnic we had on Boogie Nights. But at the same time, we all know each other really well, so it wasn't like there's some stranger doing some scene that I don't even know what it's about.... So we still felt connected to each other even though we're all filming the movie in this kind of episodic fashion. I think that Paul did that on purpose, that it's an ensemble movie but the ensemble doesn...
...thing that writers tend to comment on is your very "regular guy" looks. Does it strike you as odd that people are so fixated on your appearance...