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...With action maestro John Woo at the helm and a budget twice the size of a third world country, Mission: Impossible 2 should have been the summer's most unrelenting joyride. Instead we got a sluggish, often dim-witted action picture that wasn't even as enjoyable as the first Mission: Impossible. What happened? Well, you can start with the fact that Robert Towne, the man wrote Chinatown for God's sake, was apparently uninspired to do anything more with the screenplay than rip off Notorious and throw in a limp virus thriller. Then you can blame Tom Cruise...
...just the right tones and styles to contrast the gentleness of characters such as Lang with the sharpness of the lawyers. Miller's set - an arrangement in red, white, and blue - appears to aim at the national overtones of the piece. As the play hurtles towards disaster, the lights dim and only the red remains. It is an ominous and chilling suggestion of the trappings, false ideals, and broken dreams that can hide behind a cheerful, patriotic facade...
...deal is an historic breakthrough to be sure, but that doesn't mean it justifies the current giddy optimism over what it will mean for the Chinese people or for relations between Beijing and Washington. The Senate's ratification Tuesday of permanent normal trading-partner status for China "will dim the role of government in people's daily lives and strengthen those within China to fight for higher labor standards, a cleaner environment, for human rights, for rule of law," gushed President Clinton. But anyone who's been paying attention to conditions in China over the past couple of years...
...EMINEM "Dim" Shady? Hardly. Despite gay-bashing charge, rapper aces Video Music Awards...
This is what life is like inside the oil drum. Each morning Bush wakes up in its dim light and tries to poke his head out to the world. It starts with a "message of the day," which he tries to eke past a press corps that, with polls tightening and a real race going, isn't letting much pass before they bring up what they want to talk about. Which usually results in a pounding and a walloping, distracting and disorienting the candidate...