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Venezuela is a more complicated case. It is one of the oldest democracies in Latin America. It is also, not coincidentally, one of the most prosperous nations in the region. While Peru is cursed with the deadliest of exports, cocaine, Venezuela is blessed with vast petroleum reserves.
Altman has assembled a dream cast to flesh out his ironic panoply. Besides Tim Robbins, the movie is blessed with the presence of Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Richard E. Grant (in a hilarious virtuoso turn as a writer) and Lyle Lovett (in his film debut).
Her name is Songlian (Gong Li), and she has just come to be the fourth concubine of the master (Ma Jingwu). The first mistress is old and irrelevant; the second is ingratiating, lethal, with "a Buddha's face and a scorpion's heart"; the third a saucily imperious opera singer...
Throughout it all, we get the pleasure of Armand Assante's extraordinary performance as Cesar Castillo. He is Don Juan with a motor, blessed with a sense of humor and self-irony, as well as with compulsive cavalierness, Assante never fails to be riveting. He takes over the movie and...
To triumph over one's enemies is one of life's deepest satisfactions, and Kreimer has been blessed with the feeling. Thanks to a barrage of legal actions against suburban Morristown (pop. 16,500), Kreimer received a $150,000 out-of-court settlement last week. More money may be on...