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...Laden "dead or alive." Three years later, billions of dollars have been spent, more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed, the nation is divided, and we are nowhere close to knowing even where that man is. The President has failed us, and we are not safe. Dan Gambetta Portland, Oregon, U.S. Explosives at Large re the 377 tons of munitions missing from Iraq's al-Qaqaa military complex since March 2003 [Nov. 8]: If you were planning a war and you knew where the enemy's munitions dumps were, wouldn't you send a missile or two right...
...That fury is unleashed in a later scene in "Closer," which takes place several years after the opening. Dan, who has been with Alice all this time, is infatuated with Anna (Julia Roberts). She feels the same attraction, and for a few months they've been coupling furtively while keeping lodgings with their significant others. Now comes the messy announcements to Alice and to Anna's lover Larry (Clive Owen...
...Larry doesn't take it well. In just a few minutes, he has experienced the first stages of the cuckolded male: denial, derision, pleading, sobbing, threatening. Now, in confronting Anna about Dan, 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? What did he taste like? Was he "better"? "Gentler," she acknowledges, depleted by the hard truths he's forcing out of her. "Sweeter." Larry finally has what he wanted: the instant, utter and mutual eradication of their year-long...
...dissecting Larry, Anna, Dan and Alice as they change partners over a four-year span in the London of the '90s, "Closer" is initially playful about the deceptions this handsome quartet of characters commit while falling in love and, later, climbing out. After all, as Alice declares, "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off." But if lying has a toxic residue, the truth can kill instantly. Larry, in interrogating Anna, casts off all pride to find the self-lacerating, the ultimate male truth. Was he better? " 'Was he better than...
...involved in the material." Then the two went over the play, scene by scene. "Mike and I discussed it, but it was more that we read the scenes to each other; most of the scenes are two-handers (dialogues with two people). I'd be Alice, he'd be Dan - though he'd be Alice quite a lot. He's an excellent Alice...