Word: conned
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...CON: Too good an idea to waste on a day no one will read it. Stay tuned...
CAPE FEAR. Martin Scorsese, the world's top picturemaker, revamps the 1962 Robert Mitchum sicko thriller. This time Robert De Niro (never more cruddily galvanizing) is the ex-con with a death wish for the man who put him behind bars (Nick Nolte) and his family. Chills, laughs and a climax that hits like a hurricane of hysteria...
...this remake of the 1962 sicko classic based on John D. MacDonald's novel The Executioners, the plot contours are the same: a sleazy ex-con, Max Cady, comes to a small Southern town to take his slow revenge on a lawyer who sent him to jail, and on the lawyer's vulnerable family. The basic ethical tangle remains as well: How can a good liberal fight a bad man who at first may do nothing but lurk? But now everything else is more intense, more complex. From the film's first images -- weird creatures shimmering just below sea level...
...clear that the East represented in the main dining room of Dudley Hall was a pathetic sellout--it was not India. It wasn't the East. The clothes had no trace of the complex and rich heritage which marks India. And not even the most audacious of cultural con-artists can claim to find any trace of the cultural roots of the Afghani and Iranian refugees who purportedly handcrafted the convoluted designs. I find it difficult to believe (a doubt which some of my friends from Delhi confirm) that even the elite in Delhi, where Ms. Ramani has a boutique...
...song for what's left of New York. Playwright Terrence McNally loves the city as only a recruit from Corpus Christi, Texas, can. Director Garry Marshall, a native New Yorker, loves it as one who has escaped its boundaries but not its nostalgic magnetic pull. So their lovable ex-con Johnny (Al Pacino) may come on to rumpled beauty Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer) in a workplace seduction straight out of Anita Hill's nightmares, but he's really a sweet guy who can make a cactus bloom. Pacino plays Johnny as if he is New York: pushy, forlorn, indomitable. And Pfeiffer...