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...great, I didn’t see you there, but then I did. Your face disappeared for a few seconds because the connection was slow. We both look ridiculous looking down into a camera, our faces are a little grainy, and we have fish-eyes. But let’s chat. Now, I love talking at a two inch, two dimensional representation of a human face just as much as the next person, but can someone please tell me the purpose of the window in the corner where I can see myself? I don?...
...drawn-out process of arranging a precise time to meet at the computer to catch up on weeks of activity. I’m talking about the casual hello. The quickie. The in-and-out, sometimes lasting just seconds. Soon everyone will have a laptop with a built-in camera, meaning my Gchat bar will be full of video icons and no more of those outdated dots. And who doesn’t like to check themselves out? Let’s be real. You have the big box with your brother/lover/Thai pen pal/parole officer, but then you have that...
There is, at first blush, no good reason for this. There is nothing unique or distinctive about The Mentalist (which is not to say that it's a bad show - more about that in a minute). There's no cutting-edge science, no fancy camera work, no how-did-they-think-of-that hook. Every week, Jane goes out, talks to people, observes details and solves uncomplicated cases the same way Columbo did 35 years ago. We've seen this a million times before on television...
...Again don't want to waste time reminding the movie's core fans why they're there. So right away, we see a shirtless Zac Efron on the basketball court, practicing his moves, radiating an innocent musk, his smoothly muscled torso seemingly gleaming with - not sweat - dew. The camera not only loves the 21-year-old actor but laps him; it wants to wring the moisture from his socks and drink it. Few female stars of Hollywood's golden age received the luminous, slow-motion, soft-focus devotion Efron gets here. The idea is to stir the audience...
...Efron is a movie star, but of what era? Adept at comedy and solemnity, synthesizing Michael J. Fox and David Cassidy in their early adorable phases, he is, so far, a movie anachronism - a throwback to when there was a big market for nice. Utterly at ease in the camera's gaze, he's not a preener; he gives the impression of being an O.K. guy who in his spare time is also this teen heartthrob. Which may be a higher form of acting: star acting...