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...works - a spunky thriller about a pair of dogs who take a bite out of crime. Of course, if such a film ever were to be released, Flo and Lucky might have to track down pirated copies of their own life stories. Talk about chasing one's own tale...
...tale of how the Sunni tribes rejected the forced marriages, beheadings, smoking bans and strict fundamentalism imposed by the terrorists seems ready-made for Hollywood-and it will be front and center as Bush, Petraeus and Crocker try to sell more war to Congress and the public over the next few weeks. But it is not the only story in Iraq, perhaps not even the most important story. It is more about Iraq's recent past than about its future. It is almost irrelevant to the continuing political meltdown in Baghdad, the utter inability of Iraqis to figure...
...current craze around consumer-generated media didn't start with Youtube, MySpace or even with blogging. Go back almost 600 years. In 1421, for example, John Lydgate, perhaps longing for just one more tale, wrote an obscure piece entitled The Siege of Thebes, a continuation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The 1970s saw the dawn of fanzines, a pre-Internet form of user participation albeit distributed on mimeograph paper...
...exposé on New Orleans was one of the most naive I have ever read. To think this city will rise again because of the "resilience of its people" is a fairy tale. To believe this city can be made safe in the face of warming global temperatures, powerful storms and rising sea levels is completely ridiculous. There's an old saying: A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money. The same could be said of New Orleans. The main lesson of Katrina is that you can't fool Mother Nature. Bruce Gary, Rhinelander...
PERSEPOLIS In their '90s heyday, Iranian films often refracted social drama through the prism of a young girl's viewpoint. Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical cartoon is the tale of her life in Tehran under two despots, the Shah and the Ayatollah. Harrowing yet buoyant, Persepolis earned the Jury Prize at Cannes and the official scorn of the Iranian clerics...