![]() We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Grade: B- (Rated PG for fantasy action/peril and some language.)Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: What a voice, what an actor, what a loss. But the only heartfelt moment of this movie for me came in the end credits, with its dedication to the late Alan Rickman, who provided the voice for the blue butterfly (and former caterpillar) Absolem. Because Burton didn’t direct (though he remains a co-producer), the film isn’t as icky-Gothic as its predecessor, and Depp, in a too-small role, has a touching fragility. There are other, parallel subplots, including a sibling smackdown between Anne Hathaway’s chalk-white queen and Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen, as amusingly feral as ever. ![]() His Chronosphere enables Alice to travel back to the Hatter’s childhood and attempt to undo the bad times. To rescue him, she ventures back to Underland and has a confab with Time himself, plummily played by Sacha Baron Cohen in an accent that could perhaps best be described as Austro-Yiddish. Alice is now a buccaneering ship’s captain and the Hatter is deeply depressed about his missing family. ![]() ![]() It’s an achievement of sorts, but it's worlds away from the poignant lunacy of the Lewis Carroll books, which, except for a few of its cast of characters, this behemoth in no way resembles.Īs in Burton’s movie, which was a surprise, billion-dollar-grossing smash hit, the new film features Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as her dearest friend, the Mad Hatter. Watching it, I felt like I was viewing the piece-by-piece construction of a gigantic mechanical contraption. ![]() This 3-D sequel to Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” directed by James Bobin and written by Linda Woolverton, substitutes technological phantasmagoria for genuine wonderment. Freighted with an overload of gizmos, hardware, and special effects, “Alice Through the Looking Glass” is exhaustingly inventive. ![]()
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