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...turn out to be awful, but at least they're attempting more original premises than those of the other major networks. And perhaps it's not a coincidence that the network with the most provocative scripted series ideas is the network that gave us Man vs. Beast. The cheesiest reality shows and the most ambitious sitcoms and dramas have one thing in common: they try to startle us with something we haven't seen before. But startling people doesn't always sell detergent. In the TV business, that's the only reality that matters...
...Keanu Reeves pulled off the all-black wardrobe and the funky martial arts in The Matrix simply because the boy is cool enough to look effortless and comfortable in the rockiest (and conversely, cheesiest) of situations. The word 'effortless,' however, doesn't apply to Tom Cruise. Cruise isn't a natural - every one of his pained, constipated expressions reflects his inability to just go with the flow. In a movie like Jerry Maguire, the effort pays off because the part requires unbounded earnestness. The role of Ethan Hunt in MI2 demands just the opposite - a casual aloofness, a confident grace...
...Carter easily admits, "Our goal, first and foremost, is to scare people." It's the modern movie director's job to package an old idea with zippy effects so that the audience will think it's seeing something new--and be blown away. During the cold war, even the cheesiest sci-fi filmmaker, like the legendarily dyscompetent Ed Wood, had some moral admonition in mind ("He tampered in God's domain"). Now it's size that counts; sense and scruples don't. As Spielberg says, "If the '70s and '80s were the era of the What if? movie, then...
Even if you don't know D.H Lawrence, you do. Much in the way that Miles Davis' "Bitches' Brew" unwittingly paved the road for Kenny G., the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover has bequeathed to our collective consciousness some of the cheesiest excesses of the English imagination. (We all know them by now; the sturdy matron, the randy stable boy, a "coincidence" in the back of an ancient Woolsley. Boom chickaboom...
...modern standards such Kahn buildings as the Dodge truck plant (see cut) are nearer to 90% art. It is another paradox that when Albert Kahn gets away from his factories, with plenty of money to spend on the job. he luxuriates in a synthetic style exemplified at its cheesiest in the $20,000,000 boom-time Fisher Building in Detroit. For fun, he allows himself to design one house a year-this year a Georgian one. Senior of six brothers, four of whom he put through college, two of whom work in the Kahn firm, Albert is both spark plug...