Word: brilliante
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...fake nobody than a real somebody. Contra Tom Ripley, this is the conclusion reached by the two lead characters in Miss Wyoming (Pantheon; 311 pages; $23), Douglas Coupland's witty and hyper discourse on celebrity. Like much of his previous work (Generation X, Microserfs), it's a brilliant set of riffs that passes as a novel with mixed success...
...your selection of Bezos: brilliant, absolutely brilliant! BETTE TELLES Albuquerque...
...Malkovich, American Beauty, Fight Club) seemed to be an indication that an era of movie-making had ended, and that the artistic future of cinema would hold no place for the lengthy and sweeping sagas that culminated with the behemoth of Titanic. But Paul Thomas Anderson knew better. His brilliant Magnolia resurrects the epic from its wasted and moribund form and, in David Bowie-like fashion, makes it new and meaningful again...
...Somehow, this approach manages to appear shockingly brilliant rather than random. Such success may in large part be due to the fact that Shakespeare's original work was not itself historically situated; it mixed myth, history and pure fiction to create a world equal parts Ancient Rome and post-medieval Europe. So even though she allows monumental flights of historical fancy, Taymor is able to successfully preserve a greater portion of the original text than has been used in any recent film adaptation of Shakespeare with the exception of Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet...
...Titus himself, as portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins in one of his most brilliant performances to date, stands at the center of the web of wrongdoing, symbolically represented in one of the film's most stirring scenes by a country crossroads. Although his act of sacrificially murdering the oldest son of Tamora Queen of the Goths (the passionate and powerful Jessica Lange) sets the plot of the piece in motion, he spends most of the play contemplating and acting on his understanding of the human capacity for evil. Certainly, he is not above revenge, but as the protagonist, he allows...