What would happen if you cross-bred J.R. Ewing of "Dallas" and Carl Pope, the head of the Sierra Club? You'd get T. Boone Pickens. What would happen if you cross-bred Henry Ford and Yitzhak Rabin? You'd get Shai Agassi. And what would happen if you put together T. Boone Pickens, the green billionaire Texas oilman now obsessed with wind power, and Shai Agassi, the Jewish Henry Ford now obsessed with making Israel the world's leader in electric cars? ...more

July 30, 2008

OPENING TODAY Step Brothers *½ Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly star in this comedy about two grown men forced to live together after their single parents get married. Ferrell wrote the screenplay with director Andy McKay, who also directed "Anchorman" and "Talladega Nights," so you sort of know what you're getting into here. Review, Page 4. 112 minutes (R; crude and sexual content, and pervasive profanity) ...more

July 25, 2008