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John Berendt's nonfiction best seller has yet to appear between soft covers. So the film, directed by Clint Eastwood, serves as the audiovisual paperback version. It is likely to disappoint the book's acolytes and tax the patience of newcomers...
PLAYERS Kevin Spacey, John Cusack; director Clint Eastwood...
Brevity is not the soul of Clint. Clocking in at nearly three hours, Eastwood's ponderous adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil creeps along like a slug under the hot Georgia sun. Drag is indeed the most striking feature of this unwieldy film, and I'm not talking about Lady Chablis, the preeminent transvestite of Savannah...
That's right, there's a love plot, and an underdeveloped one at that. The writers have taken Mandy Nichols (Alison Eastwood, Clint's daughter), a relatively minor character in the book, and turned her into a nubile tart for Kelso to romance. You can almost hear the producers saying, "Let's get some old-fashioned heterosexual love into this story...
...Lawrence's ECAC preliminary round loss to Harvard epitomized its disappointing 5-12-5 league record. In addition, goal-tender Clint Owen missed the first half of the season for violating team rules and has now decided to forego his final year of eligibility after signing a professional contract...