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...What are your plans for this year's Festival? I've taken 10 days off work, and my brother has taken off seven days. Last year we bought a 25-pack [of tickets], then we found more films we wanted to watch so we bought individual tickets. This year we're going bigger. We're each getting two ten packs and a daytime pass, which is unlimited - so it's basically about 30 films each...
...does it feel to watch three or four films in a row? It's a real mind-boggler. You see one, you talk about it a bit and you go to the next one, and the next, and you're still trying to think about the first one you saw. Then you're back in reality - you're still in the mindset of the movie theater, in the dark, and you have to go out and go home...
...many films do you watch in a row? I used to see four in a day, but it's a little bit too much for me these days. Three is my limit. I still see enough movies - I'm movied...
...amusement parks, too, you can now buy your way out of line. This summer I haplessly watched kids use a $52 Gold Flash Pass to jump the lines at Six Flags New England, and similar systems are in use in most major American theme parks, from Universal Orlando to Walt Disney World, where the haves get to watch the have-mores breeze past on their way to their seats, as if Space Mountain were Spago...
...advantage his opponents lack: a sweet-tea voice that makes his tough talk go down easy. He isn't ranting; he's twanging like a bluegrass banjo, rolling along in full control-outraged on behalf of people who have lost their jobs or pensions to corporate restructuring, people who watch their children go off to "this mess of a war in Iraq." And he's enthusiastic about all the things he'll do for these people as soon as he shuts down those rascally insiders: pass universal health care and middle-class tax relief, raise taxes on rich folks...