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...really nice lad," said one. The big challenge after London is to prevent more nice lads from growing up to be terrorists. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Brian Bennett, Sally B. Donnelly and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Jessica Carsen/Leeds, Helen Gibson and Ghulam Hasnain/London, James Graff/ Paris, Tim McGirk/Islamabad, Amir Mir/Lahore, and Lindsay Wise/Cairo
...bittersweet. So he builds the world's largest candy factory and manages it in a way that could be described as presumptively eccentric. As a backstory for Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, that is, shall we say, a serviceable invention. The same might be said of Tim Burton's new movie adaptation of this apparently unstoppable media property. It's all right without being particularly riveting...
Spielberg makes a visual argument for the ugliness of the human character under pressure. The theft of a minivan; thousands of people left behind to die as tripods approach the ferry; and the descent into apparent madness by Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), one of Ferreira’s acquaintances during his flight from the aliens, all show how the instinct to survive can generate repulsive behavior...
...actors--especially Tim Robbins, as a daft homeowner--could you please stop hyperacting? This is a monster movie, not a Bergman film. The monsters are pretty cool: hood-headed, dog-faced critters that suggest the Alien beast mixed with one of the nastier Gremlins. They, and the tricks Spielberg uses to display the devastation they wreak, are the show. A splendid horror show it is, except when three little people...
...were broken in the Plame revelation. (Deliberately disclosing an operative's name is illegal but only if the government is actively trying to conceal its relationship with that person.) Yet Fitzgerald's wide-ranging investigation has involved subpoenas of at least five journalists, and several, including Cooper, NBC's Tim Russert and the Washington Post's Walter Pincus, have testified on at least a limited basis. The courts have repeatedly denied Cooper and Miller privilege to protect their sources. After the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, Pearlstine says he concluded that Time Inc. had an obligation to follow...