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...looked up 'hasty' in the dictionary, and the first definition was 'done with excessive speed,' and I thought that meant Sandra Bullock should be getting the award," she said...
...Donnell is not Ernest Hemingway. "In Love and War" has arrived, for better or worse, as an acceptable romance story, set against a beautifully done backdrop of a world war. But notably absent from this picture is any bona fide sense of Hemingway, as O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock with somewhat disturbing success dilute and plain-vanilla the story into submission...
Drawing upon a collection of correspondence put together a few years ago, "In Love and War" follows the story of the romance between the young Ernest Hemingway (Chris O'Donnell) and a nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky (Sandra Bullock). With the usual bravado, Hemingway is fulfilling his duties as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, but is shot while trying to save a wounded soldier. Once he's laid up in a hospital, there's nothing left for him to do, really, but fall in love with his nurse...
While perhaps less guilty -- though still technically breathing during the film and therefore also responsible for its quality -- Bullock has her own contributions to make. Well-trained in the appealing art of having things happen around her and perhaps offering a push now and then, Bullock tries to allow her inherent warmth to shine through and guide her way as she has before in many a standard Hollywood-movie movie before...
...celebrated personalities of the year came and went and blurred into one another. Boris Yeltsin became Ted Kaczynski became Princess Di became all three doing the macarena. While one faintly struggled to discern Rene Russo from Sandra Bullock and Michael Eisner from Michael Ovitz, Madonna singled herself out by producing a child. Setting a high financial standard for single motherhood, she exulted, "This is the greatest miracle of my life"--a cry not generally echoed in parts of the country where 48% of the children were born to single mothers. Rosie O'Donnell threw her a baby shower, her pediatrician...