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Charlize Theron, in a starkly contrasting follow-up to her role in Monster, embodies this second kind of idealism as Gilda Bessé. Gilda is the kind of clichéd wise-cracking beauty that can only exist in movies: she’s bold, intelligent, entirely immodest and incredibly provocative. Her only fault, as far as her love interest Guy (Stuart Townsend) can see, is that she lives “in a cocoon” and completely ignores the caustic contemporary politics that consume his passions; she doesn’t care about anything or anyone beyond herself...
...consecutive Christmas Eves in the late '60s, but each scene has reverberations of others from Chow's past and from the novel. What anchors each of the stories for the viewer are the faces of the actresses. No explanations are needed when Zhang is lasering a stare as bold as a shout or Lau is sobbing herself to sleep or Gong Li is flashing an imperious gaze. Or when Faye Wong, in our last glimpse of her, is captured in a slow-motion, slowly encroaching close-up that fades just as she is about to smile. It is an image...
...live in the world where President Bush, whose bold wartime leadership has made America safer, survived an ambush from that liberal lion Dan Rather, who tried to swing the race with a bunch of phony documents trashing Bush's National Guard service, only to have the charges blow up in his face...
BUSH IS DECISIVE AND BOLD, BUT THOSE traits without knowledge, sensitivity (to others and to cultural contexts) and wisdom are dangerous. We don't know yet whether Afghanistan will survive as a free and democratic country. That's still to be determined. We don't know that al-Qaeda is scattered; they are probably just lying low and planning big. Bush's shortsighted decision to invade Iraq fueled anti-Americanism not only in the Middle East but in Western democracies as well. In an ever shrinking world, the attitude of "my way or the highway" won't cut it. Looking...
...LIAM NEESON IN KINSEY As the pioneering sexologist whose studies of male and female sexuality helped liberate and outrage America, Neeson is bold, troubled and charismatic--his finest screen performance...