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...best it conveyed an idea about how the rottenness of big cities touches everyone, high and low, respectable and raffish. Director Curtis Hanson, working off James Ellroy's bitterly brewed novel about corrupt 1950s cops, gets that wonderfully right in a smart, complex film that exuberantly mixes comic excess, melodramatic pressure, romantic rue and an almost casual murderousness...
While autopsy results were withheld pending results of drug tests, it is clear that Farley's life was ravaged by his obsession with excess. His comic persona, honed to a sweaty, self-mocking perfection on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995 and in such hit films as Beverly Hills Ninja, was of the ne'er-do-well party guy, the angst-ridden outsider, the addled but lovable omnivore. But that proved to be true life as well, reflecting a fierce appetite for beer, cocaine and heroin, food and women. He went through drug- and alcohol-rehab clinics...
...heading--toward the kind of happy, reconciling ending that usually crowns romantic period adventures. Don't get too comfortable with that thought. For this story, adapted from Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel by Laura Jones and directed by Gillian Armstrong, is as wayward as its main characters--comic, fierce, digressive. Its business is to turn sure-thing expectations into a game of chance, and provide us with that rarity--a genuinely eccentric yet deeply insinuating film. --By Richard Schickel...
...disappointed by your portrayal of President Clinton and Saddam on your cover. The juxtaposition of Clinton and a maniacal-looking Saddam panders to a comic-book view of the crisis. I pray for a day when conflict can be handled with maturity and restraint, and we can finally leave the "boys-with-big-guns" attitude behind us. DAVID BESTWICK-SATTERLEE Philadelphia...
...cast wasn't quite as charming as Strauss' many waltz themes, but, then again, what is? Jennifer Sgroe, as Adele, was more versatile than Margot McLaughlin's Rosalinda; both, however, sang beautifully, and displayed a fine comic gift (but is this rare?) for exposing the stupidity and infidelity of men. John Middleton and Matt Greene were admirable as minor characters, the lawyer Blind and the infinitely sarcastic Frosch. Charles Baad had several great moments as the title character, the "Bat" who was out to settle an old debt of humiliation. Kristina Martin, who sang the role of the impostor Prince...