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Arts & Entertainment
ord Fumbles, George Bores, ight Scores
by FS
MOVIE REVIEWER
In the implausible thriller
Firewall (wide release), Harrison
Ford plays a Seattle bank executive
whose family is kidnapped and
threatened with severe bodily
harm unless he helps a gang of cy-
ber-thieves headed by malevolent
Paul Bettany to siphon off funds
from his employer's vault into
is that we've seen it all before.
The picture is basically just Air
Force One without the presidency
or the plane, and though that
movie's no classic, it was certainly
better than this tired imitation.
Tykes under five will probably
embrace Curious George (wide
release)s a soothing animated
adaptation of the famous stories
about an inquisitive monkey
and the long-suffering human
who always has to get him out of
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their Cayman Island accounts.
Needless to say, Ford outwits
the villains and saves the day— as
well as his wife and kids.
At sixty-three, the former Han
Solo looks haggard as he goes
through the mock heroics the
plot calls for, particularly when he
wheezes through a protracted and
rather ugly confrontation with
Bettany at the close.
But what really sinks Firewall
trouble.
Toddlers will probably be en-
tranced with the picture's plush
pastel colors in the same way
they are by Disney's long-running
Winnie the Pooh series.
But anyone whose age is even
approaching double digits is
likely to find the movie gooey
and tedious.
And voicing George's human
pal, Will Ferrell proves that he can
be as irritat-
ing when
merely
heard and
not seen.
His o b -
noxiously
strident
delivery
makes it
impossible
for an adult
to enjoy
the f 1 i c k
even as the
cinematic
equivalent
of a fluffy
pillow.
Final Destination 3 (wide
release) follows drive-in movie
critic Joe Bob Briggs's rule for
sequels: just make the same movie
6ver again.
So just as in the first two in-
stallments, the script deals with
a bunch of high-school students
escaping a terrible death because
one of them has a premonition of
doom, only to be killed seriatim
afterward by some mysterious
force that supposedly restores bal-
ance in the cosmos by disposing
of them.
The difference this time around
is that the initial tragedy the kids
avoid is a roller-coaster crash at an
amusement park, which allows for
a big opening action set-piece.
The other change is that the
elaborate accidents in which they
later die are less clever and more
gory than
in the pre-
vious pic-
tures.
That's
clear evi-
dence of
the fact that
the formula
that seemed
fairly fresh
in the first
episode
has by now
grown very
stale.
Perhaps
qrt.eggdrop.hu its time to
make the
first word of the title really mean
something.
Eugene Jarecki presents a so-
ber, thought-provoking analysis
of the nexus between the defense
business and the military in the
determination of post-Wo rid War
II U.S. foreign policy in Why We
Fight (Angelika).
Using historical footage and
interviews, as well as the personal
stories of ordinary citizens (an
ex-cop whose son was killed on
9/11, a young man enlisting in
the army), jarecki situates the
muscular — some would say
imperialistic — attitude the na-
tion has taken toward the use
of force against the backdrop of
President Eisenhower's prescient
I960 warning against allowing
too much power to fall into the
hands of what he called the mili-
tary-industrial complex.
Less one-sided than most of the
political-oriented documentaries
made nowadays, Why We Fight
(titled after Frank Capra's famous
wartime propaganda shorts) raises
important issues in a compelling
way.
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Cooking Corner
Triple Cheese-Stuffed Chicken Breasts |
Prep: 20 minutes
Bake: 35 minutes
Oven: 350°
Makes: 6 servings
Ingredients:
6 medium chicken breast halves
1A cup ricotta cheese
cup shredded mozzarella
cheese
113 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1A teaspoon dried basil
!4 teaspoon dried oregano
¥t teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning
2 tablespoons butter or margarine,
melted
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Preparation Instructions:
1. Using a pair of scissors, cut a thin line along the rib edge of each chicken
breast and form a pocket for the stuffing. Be careful not to cut through the outside
of the chicken breast.
2. In a bowl, combine cheeses, basil, oregano, and lemon-pepper seasoning.
Spoon a rounded tablespoon of stuffing into the pocket of each breast. Place chicken
in a rectangular baking dish and brush with melted butter. Bake at 350° for 35-40
minutes, or until no longer pink.
This dish takes a little more time and effort than most, but would serve fabulously
at any dinner party. Steamed asparagus and garlic mashed potatoes compliment the
dish nicely.
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