Word: cleverisms
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...Having provided the audience with that super-wide stage, director Jonathan Kent never uses its cinematic sweep. Instead he seems content to provide colorful backdrops and move the action swiftly along. Kent's one clever touch is the lurking presence of Jack the Ripper, for whom Lulu constantly waits. When they finally meet, she is charmed. He is her dream date, as well as her nightmare. It is the final paradox of a play in which Wedekind poses tantalising questions: Is Lulu a monster, and who uses whom? Unfortunately, Kent and Friel don't have the answers...
...WIRED FASHION Clever Clothes Last week Parisian designer Elisabeth de Senneville showed off the first jackets to have protection against cell phone radiation woven in. Costumes that change color in response to alterations in temperature, thanks to microencapsulated pigment, have been on sale at her shop (see www.e2senneville.com) for a year. If you'd like window blinds that are gray when it rains but blue when the sun comes out, rush to Paris' famous La Samaritaine department store. De Senneville also designs garments with optical fiber trim that glows in the dark courtesy of a concealed battery...
...BALL Weekend b-ballers, beware: Spalding is removing "underinflated ball" from your arsenal of sorry excuses for missed free throws. Its engineers have concocted Infusion ($45), a basketball with a built-in pump. Thanks to clever designing, it meets NBA standards for balance and rebounding. Spalding is talking with the pro league in hopes that Infusion will become the NBA's ball of choice. Shaquille, are you listening...
...clever construction of an episode is what makes reality good watching, that doesn't mean we want to see the stitching. The Wednesday outtakes will surely draw the slavish fan (and the indiscriminate couch potato), but once folks start thinking about the other 98 hours they're still missing, it can't help but dilute - and demystify - the rest of the action...
...clever film, made for less than $1 million in a digital format, consists entirely of "episodes" from The Contenders, complete with tacky titling and an unctuous, booming narrator. The minor miracle of Minahan's work is that it somehow encourages us to form a sympathetic bond with his main character, Dawn, whose ferocity is touched with a poignant longing for a kinder, gentler life by the splendid Brooke Smith. She is pregnant. She is back in the hometown she left in disgrace some years before. One of the people she is supposed to kill is the only boy she ever...