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...movie goes further. Beneath the chases and crashes, the chalices and cilices, it denies Jesus' divinity. As Teabing (perhaps not the most trustworthy authority) says in the movie, "The Greatest Story Ever Told is a lie!" And further still: the film challenges the belligerence that too often adheres to religious believers, the wars and atrocities perpetrated in His name. "Who is God, who is man?" asks Sophie. "How many have been murdered over this question?" I'm not taking sides on that issue. But for a mainstream, $125 million summer movie to raise it, let alone suggest a negative answer...
...complaint to be lodged against Pinback, it’s that the songs all sound more or less the same. Nearly every song was dominated by the lead guitar and bass (the bass much higher in the mix than usual for rock bands); vocals are buried beneath each song’s few riffs to the point of unintelligibility; no song strayed far from its studio version. None of this is particularly bad in itself, but it can get tiring after 90 minutes...
...With a lobby ceiling stripped bare to expose 78-year-old paintwork and with dentist chairs surreally placed beneath vintage fans, Singapore's New Majestic Hotel (newmajestichotel.com) makes a striking first impression. Then again, 34-year-old owner Loh Lik Peng didn't make his name by pandering to conventional notions of innkeeping. The lawyer-turned-hotelier's first property, Hotel 1929, saw a colonial-era terrace on the fringes of Chinatown transformed into a modish haven of 32 small but eccentrically styled rooms. The latest venture, a couple of streets away, is a grander vehicle for his bohemianism. There...
...minders"), he is free to call them on their foibles. Perennial Democratic Presidential candidate Richard Gephardt is an earthling whose body has been taken over by aliens: "I keep expecting him to reach under his chin and peel back that immobile, monochromatic, oddly smooth face to reveal the lizard beneath." For Hertzberg, who was Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter, Ronald Reagan's genius was to "paste a smiley-face on Armageddon's grinning skull." An American liberal, he combines the verve of Joe Klein with the precision of Michael Kinsley. Few in deadline journalism consistently display Hertzberg's grace...
...interludes. Goldstein’s saccharine sweet voice was oddly matched to the Lil’ Kim worthy lyrics she was required to recite, but “Maude and Harold” was nothing if not a comedy of incongruities. Mitnick’s exceedingly hummable score swelled beneath the show-stopping musical numbers, but never overwhelmed the actors’ riotous vocal performances. Mitnick’s score alluded extensively to the wholesome showtunes of yesteryear’s Rogers and Hammerstein productions—which was all the more ironic considering the songs’ risqu?...