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Vaughn, 27, has a sleekly handsome face and a disarming onscreen presence: he seems to be reveling in and making sport of his good looks at the same time. In Swingers he showed off a jazzy sense of comic timing, but through all the ridiculousness Vaughn has a gently ingratiating way of making us care about his character...
...little universe. It?s never easy being a spy in the house of love. It?s certainly not as funny as Dunne and Gordon must have thought it could be and all of us in the audience keep hoping it might be. But the movie does find some grotesque comic traction when Maggie and Sam move from the passive to the active mode, their prime target being poor Anton. We, in turn, find ourselves in a theater of cruelty, which is about the last place we expected to be if we believed the ads and the trailer, consoling ourselves with...
...M?rquez makes the fantastic seem ordinary. At one point Marina Montoya asks her cold-blooded keepers to kneel with her and pray. They do, each to the same God for the same reasons: to protect their lives and deliver them from evil. It is a classic Garc?a M?rquez instance -- comic, tragic and all too human...
...situation was Pop Art, the first wholly accessible style of international Modernism--an art about consumption that sat up and begged to be consumed. Its epitome was Roy Lichtenstein, who emerged in the '60s with his enormously stylish renderings of the least arty art within reach--romance and adventure comic strips...
...novel with this much grievous personal history needs comic relief. Just obliges with Mrs. Pfister, fortune-teller to the Washington elite, whose sessions are bugged by government agents, and the "Venerables," a pair of aged columnists who "had been out of step with every administration since Eisenhower's." These geezers and other faded Washingtonians in Echo House are more than welcomed. Just is a sharp-eyed observer and acerbic commentator, but he is also a bighearted host to all the has-beens and will-bes gathered in this roomy and inviting novel...