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Driving home one day, Ver?nica (Mar?a Onetto) hits something in the road and is afraid she has run over someone. Her husband tries to assure her it was just a dog she hit, but gradually her fear festers into dementia. As with Three Monkeys, the plot of this Argentine non-drama makes it sound more interesting than it is. The film is inert, visually tiring, utterly lacking in suspense; nothing changes except Onetto's hair color. Martel won some international converts for The Holy Girl in 2004, but this time the acolytes are likely to become apostates...
Wright and Wrong Finally, clarity on the Jeremiah Wright issue [May 12]. Yes, he has done great things, but at a hefty price: despair about racism. People like Wright should be afraid of Barack Obama's promise of change. Joseph Morriss, CHICAGO...
...living in homemade structures built out of the red, white and blue plastic used for shopping bags in China. In Chengdu, many people sleep under highway overpasses. On the way to Yanmen village, where 10,000 people were left homeless, people have pitched their tents in the road, more afraid of their damaged houses than being hit by cars in the night...
Finally, clarity on the Jeremiah Wright issue [May 12]. Yes, he has done great things, but at a hefty price: despair about racism. People like Wright should be afraid of Barack Obama's promise of change. Joseph Morriss, CHICAGO...
...Though she began her acting career onstage in New York City and with a notable portrayal of Honey in the original 1964 London production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Beverlee McKinsey was best known for her work on the small screen. She earned four Daytime Emmy nominations during her nine-year tenure as the conniving Iris Carrington on the soap opera Another World and captivated audiences as the matriarch on the popular series Guiding Light, which she starred in from...