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...most unflattering light was cast last week with the publication of investigative journalist Philippe Cohen's BHL: A Biography. It argues that Lévy's career was built upon contrarian posing, relentless grandstanding, lying, and connivance with politicians and the media, and - much worse - that it is devoid of any real intellectual contribution. "His irrepressible desire to express himself about everything and nothing renders his point of view incoherent," writes Cohen, who co-authored a 2003 book bashing another French institution, Le Monde. "BHL has not invented a single concept; hasn't formulated a theory." That's rough treatment...
Perhaps the purpose of all this is to show that entertaining can often leave one feeling devoid of anything genuine. This would be believable if the line that led Darin back to stardom and satisfaction were not Sandra saying, “People hear what they see.” Even at the very end of the movie, when Darin, gravely ill but still performing, must go backstage between songs to gulp oxygen from a tank, the message seems to be that image is everything...
...what’s going on with Paris Hilton? National Treasure is so formulaic that if Nicholas Cage asked hottie Abigail about hotel heiresses it would charge the film with an exciting postmodern meta-discourse (comparatively). But the film’s ho-hum shenanigans aren’t devoid of eye-opening sexual elements, particularly the masculinity crisis embodied in Cage’s ‘girly’ sidekick Riley. Throughout the film he whines and moans about all the danger Gates is getting him into, in between his moments of rocket scientist computer wizardry. Riley refers...
...difference, of course, will be dealing with it devoid of Peljto...
...considerable Oscar buzz for his almost perfect portrayal of Ray Charles—and deservedly so. From the close-eyed, contorted face that seems to interpret the world with tactile emotion to the quick paced, pitch-perfect, squeaky southern drawl, Foxx has Charles dead on. But with a script devoid of any genuine emotion, and a filmmaker who isn’t quite sure what he’s doing, Foxx’s performance does not resonate. It bears a greater resemblance to a three hour-long impression rather than an Oscar-worthy performance. Foxx is acting, and doing...