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...turn, stuck to his bland and uninspired script. "Married for 34 years?.I'm not a perfect man?I never asked anyone to lie?." He followed the Lenny Bruce dictum so often embraced by politicians and raised to an art form by Bill Clinton: deny, deny, deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Gary Doesn't Get It | 8/24/2001 | See Source »

...lines by hanging out with U.S.C. sorority girls to prepare for this role. But she knows more about young American bitchiness than she's telling--or showing--in Blonde. Sometimes, as in Election or the brilliant Pleasantville, in which she was a modern teen time-warped back to the bland, sitcom '50s, her wide-set blue eyes turn cold with contempt for square adulthood. Or squinch up in shrewd calculation of how to use (or abuse) the cluelessness of grownups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steel Behind the Smile | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...Just because this film's hero is part of the new generation of action hero - sensitive, bland, little more than a foil for the special effects - doesn?t mean this is a good thing. Granted, there?s only one Chuck Heston, and although I stick by my regret that we will never see the next best thing, a frantically bug-eyed Arnold Schwarzenegger screaming at apes in his inimitable Viennese howl, you knew you were going to sacrifice something in the way of charisma this time around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bit of A Comedown From "The Planet of the Apes" | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...Under pressure from propaganda officials, Guangzhou-based Southern Weekend this month sacked three editors and effectively downgraded itself from the sassiest read in China to a rag as bland as the People's Daily. It's the latest casualty in the Communist Party's battle against the nation's increasingly independent-minded media, a clash that's linked to an internal power struggle over who will assume top party positions in a reshuffle expected next year. More immediately, the party will be celebrating its 80th anniversary on July 1 and wants to ensure that it gets good press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing the Messenger | 7/18/2001 | See Source »

...work is very large with sharp angles, long views and black shadows." The result of the collaboration was grandiose - five different sets were built involving Dalí's painted decorations and miniature sets - but most of the scene ended up on the cutting-room floor, leaving only a bland three-minute sequence. The exhibit, though, delves into the art behind the scenes: Dalí's sketches of shots never filmed, eliminated story boards. Huge eyes - one of Hitchcock's fetishes - stare from a curtain recreated from the opening dream scene that stretches across the gallery. Object of Destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fine Art of Fear | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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