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...like a mink stole at a country-club ball, and as the matron, Julianne Moore gives a tautly frazzled turn that is a lock for an Oscar nomination. The problem is that Haynes reduces most of his characters to stick figures bearing placards. The film is a high-camp cocktail - a martini with gin and hemlock - that's shaken but not stirring. The Magdalene Sisters came to town fresh from copping the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. It's basically a women-in-prison movie, set in Dublin in the '60s, when some girls were sent to convent...
...kind of turbo-pop, ultra-gory movie experience that has won Korean action films a place in the hearts of all action fans, Torontonians had to stay up late for the screening of Volcano High in the Festival's Midnight Madness section. A high-octane cocktail of apocalyptic nightmare and high-school problem drama, Kim's movie has outsized teen demons, punishing stunt sequences and gaudy special effects that kept the night owls' eyes bugged open. At Midnight Madness, school's out forever...
...American Idol" producers should have called their show "American Dream." Even Disney couldn't come up with a better story line: the 20-year-old cocktail waitress from Burleson, Texas who sings her cheerful little heart out to capture the hearts (and votes) of the 100 million Americans who cast ballots over the course of the 13-week contest...
...Hemingway had met Robert Twigger on the road, he would probably have beaten him up and taken his per diem. The shy, scholarly Twigger's The Extinction Club (William Morrow; 222 pages) is about the elusive Pere David's deer, an anatomical cocktail of an animal with backward-facing horns, a long, thick camel neck and a donkey's tail. For centuries the only Pere David's in the world lived in a walled park outside Beijing, where they were hunted exclusively by the Emperor of China, until an enterprising missionary (the eponymous Pere) smuggled a few specimens...
...John Mellencamp found a haven. He had an attractive Thai wife, a young son, a luxury apartment and what he once described as the best gig in town: playing piano at the century-old Oriental Hotel's Bamboo Bar. The city's monied set showered him with invitations to cocktail parties and they enrolled their kids at the thriving Rosser Piano Studio. "This is a fulfilling life," Rosser told the Bloomington Herald Times, his Indiana hometown paper in 1999. "I'm doing all the things I love...