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...movie opens with a telephone conversation between University of California Berkeley student Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker of The Fast and the Furious) and his female friend Venna (Leelee Sobieski of The Glass House). When Venna tells Lewis that she has broken up with her boyfriend and that she needs a road trip to “decompress” before arriving home, Lewis immediately agrees to pick her up, selling his plane ticket home in order to buy a very old used car with which to chauffeur her. However, he has not traveled far before he receives news that...
...While the young stars of Joyride’s cast possess talent, their abilities are somewhat misused in the film. In an interview, Dahl explained that he chose Walker for his appeal and charisma. While these particular qualities shine through the character of Lewis, the actor is much less convincing in scenes requiring fear or tension. Dahl also described Zahn as dramatically gifted and incredibly funny. However, while comic relief is a device welcome to thrillers, many scenes dominated by Zahn’s admittedly funny comedy divert the path of the plot’s progression. Sobieski, whose talent...
...That?s Alan Greenspan?s new part-time job. The task of the newly formed Air Transportation Stabilization Board, headed by the Fed head (or his representative) and rounded out by Treasury Secretary Paul O?Neill, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, and U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker, is to figure out how to disburse those $10 billion in loan guarantees (essentially a government co-sign that allows banks to make bad loans to desperate carriers at reasonable rates). To decide which airlines get how much money at what rates, and what, if anything, they have...
...science reporter, went on to write "Galileo?s Daughter," the story of the renaissance scientist?s life and times, and his relationship with his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, a Poor Clare nun. Now, Sobel has edited and translated "Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633" (Walker; November 16). Kirkus is transported, giving the book a starred review. "The gentle, intelligent voice of Galileo?s daughter speaks across the centuries in 124 remarkable epistles--published for the first time in English - written to her father in the early 17th century...Lively and lovely. Making these available...
...cross-streets, my co-walker pointed out the western views as they accosted us in flashes of sunlight: The listing black stumps of the World Trade towers, the surviving-but-abandoned American Express building. Other, windowless shells whose names I didn?t retain...