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...Brother, Where Art Thou? Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman Director: Joel Coen Opens...
Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays - Everett Ulysses McGill - should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "based on The Odyssey by Homer." While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer...
...notes that the average SAG members earns only $5,000 a year In the nick of time, like the delivery boy in a Domino's Pizza spot, star quality arrived. Jay Leno donated $10,000 to a SAG strike fund, and soon Kevin Spacey, Harrison Ford, Nicolas Cage, George Clooney and Helen Hunt had ponied up amounts of from $10,000 to $200,000. Now that famous faces were attached to celebrities, the media woke up to the strike. So did some of the citizenry: a 16-year-old boy, who saw Richard Dreyfuss present the union view...
...Coen Brothers' upcoming film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is one of these musicals in disguise. The characters - even the one played by George Clooney - break out into folk, country and bluegrass standards like "Man of Constant Sorrow" that are strung throughout the movie. Set in Depression-era Mississippi, the movie even has a scene which features marching Klansmen and a singing Klan leader. Actually, I could have done without that sequence. The only thing creepier than a singing Klan leader is... well, let me get back to you on that after I see the re-released, uncut version...
...Automated Electronic Defibrillator segment is prefaced by a thought so personal and so chilling that my previous association with the shock machines as mere props in the hands of George Clooney vanishes forever. The instructor tells us that for every minute a victim of cardiac arrest awaits defibrillation, his chances of survival decrease 10%. She pauses long enough for us to do the math--probably dead after 10 minutes. Then she ominously leaves the phrase "In New York City..." hanging in the air. "There is a less than 1% survival rate for cardiac arrest in New York City...