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...follow-up to last year's brilliant Trainspotting; though it sports the same director, writer, producer and star, the similarities end there. The ill-paced narrative tells the story of Robert (Ewan McGregor), a recently-fired janitor who unwittingly kidnaps the beautiful daugher (Cameron Diaz) of his rich ex-boss. Screenwriter John Hodge attempts to freshen things up by tossing in a couple of gun-toting angels, a psychotic dentist and some forced romantic comedy, but only manages to further muddle the plot...
...delivers it quietly, almost swallowing the words, and the effect is chilling. To its own detriment, the script fails to learn from his example. Writers Tom Matthews and Eric Williams, journalists themselves, cannot resist hammering home their message. "I don't want to cross the line," Brackett tells his boss; Lou, at the beginning of the movie, "I just want to move the line." Cheesy, perhaps, but certainly forgivable in terms of moviespeak. But later, as the film's climax approaches, the writers are apparently worried we may have forgotten their little zinger. "How's moving the line going...
...Johnson's favorite charity, on the board of which the coach?s wife sits. Angelos thought that was improper, and has been relentlessly chiding Johnson about it all offseason. The real nettle, of course, may be that Johnson's offseason started a bit earlier than his boss had hoped when the Orioles lost to the Indians, a team they had defeated in last year's AL playoffs, in six games...
...very title is mystifying. It seems to belong on a memoir by a minor, faintly boring old poet. It perches rather uneasily atop a story in which Robert, a sweet, dim maintenance man (a woofly Ewan McGregor), replaced by a robot, decides to revenge himself on his rich, cruel boss (Ian Holm) by kidnapping the boss's daughter Celine (a sleek Cameron Diaz). She, naturally, turns out to be spoiled, smart, willful and eager to collaborate in ripping off Daddy...
...your item on Bill Clinton's hearing loss [WASHINGTON DIARY, Oct. 13]: I got my hearing aid about five years ago, at age 48. My associates were complaining that I was ignoring them. My boss insisted that I get a hearing aid because he was tired of saying I wasn't ignoring my colleagues but simply couldn't hear them. I contended I was indeed ignoring them; however, I broke down and got a hearing aid anyway. But I'm still ignoring them--all the more now that I can hear all the B.S. they have to say. FRED DESIO...