Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie star, plays the eccentric, witty and coldly sinister family matriarch, Mrs. Pascal. Many of the family's tragedies can be blamed on this woman who manages to avoid all fault by merely saying that "one raises cattle, children just are and you let the be." Rounding out the cast is Freddie Prinze, Jr., who plays Anthony, Jackie O. and Marty's awkward, sexually frustrated little brother whose days are spent in aimless activity...
This is not to say that the members of this clan are immune to such flaws. Yet that is precisely why the trick Anderson and his cast pull off is so admirable. Anderson makes the inherently unlikable lovable, the kitschy worthwhile and the ridiculous meaningful. Mark Wahlberg is excellent as the central character who changes from innocent and stupid Eddie Adams to egotistical and stupid porn star Dirk Diggler. Burt Reynolds seems likely to get a Travolta-like burst of renewed big-screen legitimacy from this role, as plays Jack with such sincerity that we almost believe that his films...
...growling frustration and the character's seem to merge, finally giving Malick what he wants. This is apparently his preferred way of working: letting actors go on and on until they exhaust themselves and stumble into some kind of spontaneous truth. "Terry loves scenes going wrong," says a cast member...
...meditative style meshes with the urgency of a combat tale. As it evolves on set, this is shaping up to be both the most ambitious war movie since Apocalypse Now and, potentially, the strangest. "It'll be Malick's Iliad," says Geisler with only slightly undue portentousness. A cast member says that the director, maybe sensing a roll, is already talking about an even more ambitious follow-up. Malick's Odyssey...
...millions of us how utterly irrelevant the monarchy has become. From the silly kilts to the last-minute concessions at the funeral, "the Firm" has more than ever proved itself to be out of touch with a modern people--and so unnecessary. It is time for us to cast off this "plague of kings." MICHAEL MATT London...