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...bereft China dismays Beijing's snobby culture mandarins: They prefer gilded, high-art films, and the fact that Feng's proletarian movies actually make money is seen as doubly galling. "We are shocked by Feng's superficial motives, outdated film skills and astonishing lack of creativity," sniffs Beijing film critic Wang Zhen. "It falls under the banner of commercial filmmaking...
...Europeans, the names Giorgio Morandi, Chardin and Manet are among the first to pop up. But he is also one of those painters who, happily, feel entitled to pick and quote wherever they choose: he does not suffer from the snobbery of influence. "The sublime of Orange Crate art," critic Adam Gopnik writes in his catalog introduction, and one knows just what he means. Thiebaud is one of the few American artists whose ambitions have no Puritan or didactic dimension--he wants to give pleasure but in a serious and considered way, and he does...
...argue with our choice of Best Novelist or Best Singer, but no one doubts each is a legitimate category. Where the debate gets trickier is whether some categories even merit inclusion, such as Best DJ. We ultimately decided yes, and music critic Chris Farley defends that decision in his story...
...direct to video if she weren't in them. And still they are hits. People go to see Roberts despite her films, happy to pay for the privilege of being in her virtual presence. They want what she's got--what, seemingly, she is. No matter what this critic may say about her next film, America's Sweethearts, you can bet the plexes will be full...
...even tried Meryl Streep, who seemed to perfect an Australian accent in A Cry in the Dark. She was "in rehearsal." Thank heaven for writers. "If you think of the innumerable regional accents of English-speaking Yanks, Anglos, Aussies and Asians, including the phonetically unimpressive Mr. Mahathir," comments TIME critic Robert Hughes, author of The Fatal Shore, a history of Australia, "you realize that the days of uniform English pronunciation are long gone." And Dr. Mahathir, for all his linguistic prowess, still seems to struggle with a few simple words?like discretion and humility...