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Jean-Hugues Anglade, last seen in "Killing Zoe," has a blast as King Charles IX, demented, infirm, childish and incestuous. He even gets a wonderful death scene where he literally sweats blood. Vincent Perez has precious little to do besides being precious and using his melting pulchritude to best advantage. Virna Lisi, who took the acting prize at Cannes, gives the best performance in the movie. Her take on Catherine de Medici moves between the campy and the affecting. Those who speak French may have to fight the temptation to imitate her thick Italian accent. Playing Catherine de Medici...
...solutions. They await the simple will to make unpleasant tradeoffs between our desire for government services and our desire not to pay for them. The notion that there is some novel solution out there waiting to be discovered -- one that avoids the need for such trade-offs -- is a childish fantasy...
...Council) was capable of making startling and creative decisions. But his family background, training and career were totally unadventurous. He was steeped in old-style Catholicism. This made him, like the famous 19th century reformer W.E. Gladstone, a "conservative in everything but essentials." His spiritual diary reflects an almost childish simplicity in his devotions. The rosary was hardly ever out of his hands...
...Anna, moody, beautiful and brown-haired, has recently sent a fake alarm through the party when she cries "shark" in pretend. This act of immature attention-getting sets the scene of her disappearance, which will ultimately become the only certainty in the film, in a context of folly and childish insignificance...
...will not blame Ms. Carrier for the outrageous hyperbole The Crimson used to headline her article. But whoever came up with the headline "Overseer Candidate's Homes Blow in Wind" not only make a baseless, childish accusation against one of Florida's most respected companies, but also mocks the ferocity of the hurricane which devastated south Florida. Was it a little "wind" that caused damage to Lennar's homes? Did any of Lennar's homes "blow" away as insinuated by your headline? While I am not a lawyer (yet), I can definitely see how such a blatant lie could open...