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...realism from their fantasies, how is Lewis’ simple bedtime myth to compete?At an elaborately-choreographed interview session in New York City last month, the film’s director, producer, and six principal actors make their pitch. Whirling through talking points with flashes of genuine charm, the creative team returns more than once to the example set by two particular feats of cinematic wizardry.Producer Mark Johnson takes the most direct route, naming them nonchalantly.“I always thought that Narnia was real,” he says. “After the success of films...
...Jelly is to sex as grape jelly is to gourmet…Even cheep [sic] porn directors know that the only thing grocery store lubricant is good for is use as fake tears in dramatic scenes,” reports Alexandra Cecilia Palma ’08. What charm, what grace...
...There’s just such a big… sense of family, including all the bickering, and the love, and the going out for drinks, and everything like that,” Krause says.But it is not just the social atmosphere; even more of the charm of G&S operettas is that they allow the directors, actors, producers, tech crew, set designers, the painters to decide how to give new life to the humor and the fun Gilbert and Sullivan invisioned. Each generation of thespians sees a different “Ruddigore” and has a different...
...present at the concert but only stultify the recorded artifact. The titular “Kicking Television” is a fairly uninteresting piece of angular guitar rock reminiscent of “I’m a Wheel” with none of that song’s charm. “Radio Cure” is another example of a song better left in the studio. Its dissonant chordal structure and hushed vocals are buried in the bustle of live performance, making its inclusion here incongruous. An energetic closing salvo of “Oh distance...
...Billy Bob Thornton, “Monster’s Ball”) have embezzled $2 million from a mob boss and are being tracked down by one of the boss’s hit men. Cusack as a hard-nosed killer/mob lawyer, without any of the neurotic charm of “Gross Pointe Blank,” is a bit hard to stomach. One wonders what happened to that fun, lovable kid who played Anthony Michael Hall’s pal in “Sixteen Candles.” Instead of Minnie Driver (“Good...