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...past, Carmel has preserved its bohemian charm through ordinances banning streetlights, neon signs and, at one stage, ice cream cones (Eastwood reversed that one in 1986). But the 1-sq.-mi. city has become a victim of its own success, as three-bedroom houses sell for $2 million and the high rents that gallery owners are willing to pay force out mom-and-pop stores. Oldtimers shrug at the city's latest dirigiste maneuver. "This is still paradise," says Wilda Northrop of the Carmel Art Association. "No matter what happens on Ocean Avenue, there's always the beautiful ocean...
...Kooning: An American Master (Knopf; 732 pages), you get a full sense of de Kooning's quiet charm and his rollicking genius. What you also grasp is his stupendous gift fOr self-destruction. Mark Stevens, the art critic for New York magazine, and his wife, writer Annalyn Swan, have produced a superb biography, thorough and surefooted. It's a book full of nuanced readings of de Kooning's work and sympathetic but dry-eyed accounts of his very disordered life, especially in the 1970s and '80s. Those were the years when he was treated as a national treasure, even...
...Kooning's quiet charm and rollicking genius...
...jail in Thailand, the innocent victim of a drug bust. The logic of this plotting may be--well, is--a little shaky, but who cares? Just as we are prepared to forgive Bridget the woman, so we forgive Bridget the movie its obvious flaws because of its equally inescapable charm. --By Richard Schickel
There is something like ashy molasses in Ray Charles’ voice: dripping syrupy sweet with southern charm yet charged with gritty, unhewn candor, it resonates with a sense of immediacy and emotional clarity that is nothing short of divine. And yet somehow, even after 17 tedious years of development, Ray, based on Charles’ life, does not muster any semblance of the splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques...