‘Elektra’: Leave Your Grown-up Mind at Home
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- ‘Elektra’: Leave Your Grown-up Mind at Home
- Canadian Farmer at Centre of Mad Cow Maelstrom
- Murdoch Bids $5.9B For Fox Shares; Jobs: Apple Earnings Soar; Trump…
‘Elektra’: Leave Your Grown-up Mind at Home
Austin 360 – Austin 360 (subscription) – Jan 14, 2005
There’s a love interest played by Goran Visnjic, who then disappears partway through the film. There’s a hasty attempt at characterization — Elektra has obsessive-compulsive disorder, you see — which veers between useless and insulting. Worse, the attempt to treat this kiddie matinee as a grown-up movie encourages audiences to actually pay attention. And that’s not a good idea. Because then they might notice that while the heroes and the villains in “Elektra” both know the same Eastern arts, those who use it for good are all Caucasian and selfless. Those who use it for evil are mostly Asian and bent on world domination. Admittedly, there are some good Asian fighters here — all happy to serve as anonymous punching bags for our white heroine’s training sessions…
Go to see Jennifer Garner — who has already outgrown this sort of thing — flash her belly button and kick some stunt people. Go if you’re a genuine Marvel maniac and can’t live without seeing every big-screen adaptation they manage to put on the screen. But leave your grown-up mind at home. The filmmakers certainly did.
Canadian Farmer at Centre of Mad Cow Maelstrom
planetark.com – Jan 14, 2005
The cow did not show signs of mad cow disease, Vohs said, but farmers are encouraged to turn in samples from old cattle for the country’s stepped-up surveillance program. Vohs would not provide a theory for how his cow got the disease, but told reporters he bought a calf starter feed from a local supplier in the spring of 1998. “I bought that feed in good faith,” he said, explaining he usually feeds his cattle home-grown hay and grain. “It’s just something I tried in ’98, perhaps looking for some better performance in the calves. ” He said his herd had 104 calves that year, 70 of which were sold to feedlots, and 34 that became breeding cows and bulls. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Wednesday it had quarantined 22 cows on the farm that inspectors plan to kill and test for the disease. Vohs said he sold his bulls to local farms and did not export them.
Murdoch Bids $5.9B For Fox Shares; Jobs: Apple Earnings Soar; Trump…
Forbes – Jan 14, 2005
Accused of helping to back a plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, Africa’s No. 3 oil producer, he denied involvement, and was sprung after a bail payment of $314,000. South Africa, infamous for a vast home-grown “talent pool” of mercenaries, barred Sir Mark from leaving the country, pending investigations. But, guilty or innocent, honor can be an ephemeral thing in what late U. spymaster James Jesus Angleton called the “wilderness of mirrors. ” Thus Thatcher, 51, reportedly agreed to a plea bargain Wednesday, and will make an unscheduled appearance at a court in Cape Town…
Cordish and Joseph Weinberg, and several related companies owned by Cordish and Fields. Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Fields, scoffed at the lawsuit. “As public records clearly show, Mr. Trump voluntarily abandoned this project and the tribe years ago.