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...Like any passionate marriage, the decision led to moments of ecstatic pleasure and migraine-like pain. At its brilliant best, RJP sounds like the radio station you always wished you owned. At the click of the play button your entire library continuously and melodiously blends into itself with nary a second of dead air, songs cohabiting completely at random yet sparkling with synchronicity. I've tried Music Match and all those other jukeboxes; nobody does it better than Real...
...Koenig went on to pursue a brilliant career, serving as Governor of Paris and, finally, France's Minister of Defense...
...ultimate fit—minus two things. The committee looked long and hard at Bollinger—his intelligence, his questioning mind, his grand plans attracted them all—but no matter his brilliant ideas and wonderful personality, he had two fatal flaws in their mind. At 54, Bollinger was just too old. The committee wanted someone who could hold the job for 15 or 20 years, like the great presidents Bok and Eliot. After all, only 26 people had served as president in Harvard's 365 years. Secondly, Bollinger had no Harvard degree—and thus would...
There is, possibly, a moral here--something about how sexual and material fetishism renders people crazy with desire. But let's not go there. One Night at McCool's is, finally, quite a brilliant exercise in style. First-time director Harald Zwart, a Norwegian music-video guy, has a marvelously cool eye for the slightly surreal aspects of American bad taste. Lamps that light when you clap your hands, the chrome and leather modernism of an arriviste's pad--they are the objective correlatives of his characters' endless seducibility, their inability to imagine the stupid consequences of ill-considered passion...
...Brando, as well as included scenes with Playboy Playmates. The August 15th release coincides with the 22nd anniversary of the film's original theatrical run. Fans of the original will flock to see another act of potentially destructive Coppola hubris, but the rest will leave it alone. An already brilliant film made better? Here's hoping...