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No sadistic cop??could grill a suspect with more brutal intensity than a man brings to the job of questioning the woman who's about to walk out on him. In just a few minutes, Larry (Clive Owen) has experienced the first five stages of the cuckolded male: denial, derision, pleading, sobbing, threatening. Now, in confronting Anna (Julia Roberts) about her lover Dan (Jude Law), he atavizes into Caveman, the alpha male in competitive fury. "Where did you make love: What parts of the house, what parts of the body?" "How did Dan perform?" "Was he 'better'?" "Gentler," she acknowledges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Let's Talk About Sex | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...often unexpressed longings of this group, to make that essentially 19th century figure, the resourceful Western loner, into a 20th century character. For what, after all, are Eastwood's many cops but Westerners wearing suits instead of chaps, carrying an automatic instead of a six-gun? Clint's first cop???Coogan in Coogan's Bluff?is a Westerner, an Arizona deputy sheriff who goes to New York City to extradite a prisoner and is soon on a collision course with police-judicial bureaucracy. So is his cop in The Gauntlet, Phoenix lawman also on an extradition job. As for Reynolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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