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...some Beautiful bashers, these omissions are crucial--as if a biopic of Bill and Hillary Clinton had left out "I didn't inhale," Paula Jones and the cigar. But A Beautiful Mind--like the Iris Murdoch drama Iris, which has also been criticized for rouging the truth, and for which Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent are nominated this year--is biography simplified to a parable in which reason is lost and love sustained. Anyway, that's the movie that Howard made and that will probably be named Best Picture on Sunday. You see, now that it's been pilloried...
...crucial post of Food and Drug commissioner--vacant ever since President Bush took office more than a year ago--finally seemed to have found its man. He was Alastair J.J. Wood, a respected drug-safety expert at Vanderbilt University. Wood, who had been interviewed several times by the White House and told he was the front runner for the job, had the support of usually querulous public interest groups, as well as Senate health-care leaders from both parties. It seemed an easy confirmation...
...union of their spirits serves, on a crucial level, to amplify the film’s ability to evoke a sense of wonder in the audience. This is a key practice for Spielberg; his films feed the soul far more than they do the mind. Spielberg is not, in the end, a director who pays inordinate attention to a film’s characterizations, pace or intelligence; he will take an awe-inspiring visual over a smart line any day. At this philosophy’s extreme—the climactic Close Encounters of the Third Kind setpiece, for example?...
Changes to music and lyrics are just the tip of the iceberg; interpretation is also crucial. It matters how a TV star may interpret a lyric differently from a classic Broadway belter or a London lilter. It matters that Brent Spiner (Star Trek’s Data) is a vocally superior John Adams in 1776, but somehow his performance in the revival matches the wit or intensity of William Daniels’ original portrayal. It matters that in the second Broadway revival of Cabaret, Alan Cumming delivers the shocking final line of “If You Could See Her?...
...upcoming election ought to emulate the governor’s race between Weld and Senator John F. Kerry in 1996—a clean, serious seven-debate contest in which the candidates sparred over crucial issues like education and crime. Regardless of the outcome, Massachusetts voters deserve to have two reasonable and viable competitors in the governor’s race. Swift, with all her baggage, could not offer a substantive campaign; Romney at least gives the people of this state a serious choice...