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To: Ilaine who wrote (76862)	10/12/2004 11:43:52 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793866

"Sky Captain" I see the movie has been colorized. Focus groups must have been turned off by the black and white. I don't understand the aversion to black and white movies. "Old fashioned" I guess. Derek

To: Ilaine who wrote (76862)	10/15/2004 4:22:38 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793866

re: Team America "The funniest puppet film" canada.com <SNIP> "If you thought Howdy Doody was a laugh, wait until you catch the scene of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the villain of the piece, singing his signature song, I'm So Ronery. Kim is selling weapons of mass destruction to the terrorists despite the intervention of the UN representative, known to Kim as Hans Brix. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Team America was made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the brains behind South Park, which came to the big screen as a parody of Broadway musicals. Team America: World Police is a political film that skewers right-wing American interference in world affairs and left-wing American isolationism, as represented by the Film Actors Guild (F.A.G.), whose members include Sean Penn, complaining that before the war, Iraqi children played in rivers of chocolate, and Tim Robbins, who says, "We will persuade everyone to drive hybrid cars and stop smirking." Matt Damon, meanwhile, says nothing but "Matt Damon." Eventually, they all get chopped in half or their skulls are smashed open, unleashing rivers of marionette blood. The movie opens in "Paris, France," where Arab terrorists carrying a ticking briefcase are attacked by the Team America force, who arrive in star-spangled airplanes and blow up the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre trying to kill the bad guys, then announce, "We stopped the terrorists," as Paris burns behind them." </SNIP> Also (unrelated): This just In, Important News Alert: "Some can catch a lie nearly 90 percent of time" seattletimes.nwsource.com <SNIP> "The clues aren't as obvious as Pinocchio's nose, but some individuals can detect the subtle signs that people reveal when they lie. The vast majority of people don't notice those flickers of falsehood, but psychology professor Maureen O'Sullivan has found a few who can find the fibbers nearly every time. Of 13,000 people tested for the ability to detect deception, "we found 31, who we call wizards, who are usually able to tell whether the person is lying, whether the lie is about an opinion, how someone is feeling or about a theft," she said. " .... "O'Sullivan said FBI and CIA agents were only about average in lie-detecting ability, but a strong performing group was Secret Service agents who guard politicians and spend a lot of their time scanning crowds for nonverbal clues. "