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...challenging. It's just such a rare opportunity to do anything that's truthful. Most of the time, you're just trying to when you do these larger Hollywood movies that are very genre- specific, they try to just get you to do it by numbers and cry on cue, and, you know what I mean? With Paul, it's like, even if the thing is so close to home, it never bothers me, because it's that much more truthful and it's that much more original, you know? It's always stranger than fiction...
RACK 'EM UP Fancy yourself a modern-day Minnesota Fats? Now you can sink those eight balls and hustle suckers without leaving your PC. The Real Feel PoolShark from Interact ($29.99) works with all USB-enabled computers, including the iMac. How it works is simple: you hold a pool cue (plastic one included) over a roll bar on the mouselike controller. How fast and far you move it directs the virtual cue on your screen. Also included is the PC-only game Ultimate 8 Ball, which lets you try your luck against computer players or challenge other hustlers...
...look at Alain Delon (the delicate stud of Purple Noon) or Dennis Hopper (who gave Ripley a cowboy swagger in the 1977 The American Friend, Wim Wenders' adaptation of Ripley's Game) and see an actor sharpening his tools: the attentiveness, the useful smile, the waiting for a cue to make his move. Ripley watches Dickie, and an actor prepares. We watch the actor playing Ripley and learn the secrets of his duplicitous craft. It's as if a famous seducer had made a how-to video...
...inmate (played with a daringly lunatic, dark-star quality by Sam Rockwell), whose crimes are even worse than we feared. At the core, though, one finds a slacky, sappy film. The human mystery that breathed so easily in Shawshank is often forced here. Grandstanding reaction shots of teary guards cue us to John Coffey's miraculous power as surely as the big man's initials hint at his majesty...
...always seemed to me odd that proctors are systematically evaluated before reappointment, and even faculty are evaluated, through CUE questionnaires, before they are promoted, but there is no requirement that student opinions be solicited before a tutor is reappointed," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message...