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That audience, of course, was me. Every Wednesday night, I would rush back to my Cambridge apartment, nuke a bag of popcorn, cuddle up on the couch and prepare for Survivor. Although some may consider a two-hour grace period between when my eyes were first glued to the television and when the opening credits for the show began to run to be a little excessive, I assure you the time was well-spent writing letters to CBS concerning how much Big Brother sucked...
...ripped off in the opening sequence, I was praying Chow Yun-Fat and his charisma would be underneath). And how did a television show that always revolved around the 'team' concept become the Tom Cruise vanity show anyway? By the time Woo is finally allowed to unleash his bag-of-tricks near the end, he does admittedly pull off some spectacular sequences, most notably a high-octane motorcycle chase and a deliriously over-the-top kung-fu battle. But by the time we get to this sizzle, we've already had to endure far too much fizzle...
...time I think of the Farrelly's follow-up to There's Something About Mary, I get a queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach (I have the same reaction to thoughts of Scary Movie. If I think of them simultaneously, I have to pull the air sick bag from under my chair.) Though Carrey tried valiantly to up the ante on the gross-out schtick, the movie just never rose above its cheap tricks. Remember, Mary succeeded because of its pacing - in between the astounding sight gags, the Farrellys toyed with an ultrasweet romantic comedy that offered...
...personality. She clings to a smarmy British accent, bashes Britney Spears and the other teen pop stars even though her early music was just as packaged and diluted, complains about the "sucky" scripts being sent to her even though she can't act her way out of a paper bag, and even carps about the nudity in the British tabloids--this from the woman who posed lasciviously with animals...
...Simon & Schuster; 509 pages; $27.50), Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas addresses the question with moral clarity, psychological subtlety and bracing dramatic pace. Thomas conjures up not only the well-known good Bobby and bad Bobby--the saint and the bully--but all the Bobbys, like cats in a bag: the punk with the resourceful instincts of a statesman (see the Cuban missile crisis or the civil rights struggle in the South), the hawk and the dove, the liberal and the conservative, the plunger and the temporizer, the youthful McCarthyite, the knight of the New Age, the scowlingly obsessive hater...