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...IRVINE, 82, media watchdog who, in 1969, founded Accuracy in Media, an early protester of "liberal bias" in the media; in Rockville, Md. Among Irvine's targets were CNN's Gulf War reporter Peter Arnett (who Irvine said aired "Saddam's version of the truth"), Hillary Clinton ("kooky") and Dan Rather. He dubbed AIM's persistent call for the CBS anchor's ouster the Can Dan campaign...
...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, depleted by the hard truths he's forcing out of her. "Sweeter." Larry finally...
...dissecting Larry, Anna, Dan and the younger Alice (Natalie Portman) as they change partners over a four-year span in the London '90s, Closer is at first playful about the deceptions this handsome quartet of characters commit while falling in love and climbing out of it. 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...
...would argue that sex has very rarely been portrayed in the movies," says Owen, who played Dan in the original stage production of Closer before becoming Larry in the film. "It's always there as titillation, and it's often not about anything. But if you look at our lives, it's an interesting world that we inhabit when we're relating in a sexual way. And movies rarely go there...
...scheme of Closer is simple: two people become a couple, break up, pair off with someone new. Dan and Alice become a couple, then Anna and Larry, then Dan and Anna and, briefly, Larry and Alice. We are shown only the beginning and end of each affair, when hopes are surging or betrayal sours the air. The piece is a series of cardiograms: hearts open and shut down. "Have you ever seen a human heart?" says Larry, a doctor. "It looks like a fist soaked in blood...