Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much for the cynicism. It evaporates about 30 seconds after the house lights dim and director Julie Taymor's menagerie starts appearing on the stage and in the aisles. A pair of spindly giraffes (with men on stilts hidden inside) parade regally in front of a golden sun. A cheetah prowls the stage, manipulated by a fully visible actor as if she were pushing an anthropomorphic wheelbarrow. Birds "fly" on the end of a pole waved around like a kite, while a huge elephant galumphs down the aisle. As they converge to the strains of Circle of Life...
Power play efficiency proved the only dim spot for Harvard...
...guys...well, thank God for the good old FBI. The federal agents dispatched to handle the situation are portrayed as soulless automatons, and the local sheriff they corrupt into doing their nefarious bidding is almost as dim-witted as Baily (despite heroic efforts at subtlety by Silence of The Lambs's Ted Levine). Costa-Gavras insists that the FBI are simply caught up in the hubbub, trying to do their job as best they can; but when he depicts Bureau snipers blowing away a wax statue of a Native American in a botched attempt to nail Baily, one starts...
...Despite the historical appropriateness of the suddenness with which the family is marched out of its hiding place, the contemplative nature of Anne's diaries calls for a more thoughtful and generous finale. The production's solution is to project her words over the entire set: as the lights dim, Anne's writing becomes visible, covering all the rooms that she has inhabited. A voice-over by Portman tells the audience of Anne's hope that her words should live on even after she dies. Thus is Anne honored for recording her short life and giving us the gift...
...very title is mystifying. It seems to belong on a memoir by a minor, faintly boring old poet. It perches rather uneasily atop a story in which Robert, a sweet, dim maintenance man (a woofly Ewan McGregor), replaced by a robot, decides to revenge himself on his rich, cruel boss (Ian Holm) by kidnapping the boss's daughter Celine (a sleek Cameron Diaz). She, naturally, turns out to be spoiled, smart, willful and eager to collaborate in ripping off Daddy...