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...badass no matter what accent you foist upon him, never truly finds a rhythm in his performance or a core to his character. He’s been directed to deliver a subtle performance in the extreme; so subtle in fact that he’s largely left staring deadpan while the action clumsily revolves around him. And while Robbie Coltrane, as Abberline’s sidekick, provides a competent foil for Depp’s malaise, quoting Shakespeare with pithy aplomb, Heather Graham does nothing to alter this reviewer’s opinion that she shouldn?...
...Cardiff video walk available at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As you roam through galleries and into the museum's back stairwell, you watch prerecorded images of that route on the foldout screen of a small video camera. But that pedestrian journey is transformed by Cardiff's deadpan reveries, choral music and the sound of ghostly footsteps...
...further increased the exhilaration as each musician demonstrated levels of virtuosity that might have put the sacred Dave Matthews Band to shame. The marimba player even segued into a brief but soulful snatch of “Summertime” while the rest of the band accompanied in admirable deadpan. Walking out after the long standing ovation, it was hard to escape the feeling that these performers could rival anything that Western music has to offer...
Following Easy deep into Europe, Brothers shifts its focus among a vast ensemble that changes as the casualties mount; almost all are portrayed by little-known actors, so the viewer can't intuit who will survive. Grisly and deadpan, Brothers seeks to be a corrective to movies that romanticized war. Yet in a way its unvarnished reality replaces the old glorification of war with a new kind. In the eighth episode, a voice-over by one soldier almost petulantly wonders if noncombatants would ever understand the soldiers' sacrifice: "How could anyone ever know the price paid by soldiers in terror...
...that began 1.8 million years ago, bolstering the theory that modern Chinese are descended from these early men. DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof biography of the inventor of the modern bra, Otto Titzling. DIED. PAUL MAGLOIRE, 93, dictator of Haiti from 1950 to 1956; near Port-au-Prince. The former general...