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...Albert Finney), the man whose residence we have entered, is more derailed by his wife's death than delighted by his daughter's birth. Named for her mother, and thus a constant reminder of Dr. Sloper's loss, Catherine (Leigh) grows up with little hope of connecting with her distant, resentful father. Worse, Austin's sister Lavinia (Maggie Smith) fancies herself a surrogate mother but is too uncouth and undisciplined to make of Catherine a sophisticated lady...
Pitt's character, both in writing and in performance, is similarly underdeveloped at first. We get the image of an inexplicably angry young man, unsatisfied with his family and domestic associations. Pitt's gruff, distracted and distant demeanor, his clipped and uncompassionate manner, is convincing he is by no means likable. In fact, as the audience does not identify or sympathize with him on his pre-Tibet misadventures, the movie's first half seems aimless, and Annaud dangerously skirts the edge of alienating the audience by depriving them of something to latch onto...
...looks as though it is sitting on the surface of the canvas as opposed to on the hat in the image where it belongs. Similarly, the highlights on the buildings in "Montmartre Street Scene" appear more like abstract shapes on the picture plane than reflections on buildings in the distant background. This conflict between the material surface of the painting and the illusion of space in the image is doubly intriguing in its ambiguity, as we are unsure whether to attribute it to budding originality or simply unresolved patches in a young artist's work...
CUERPETINO, Ca: Ah, the loneliness of command. Vacationing on a distant Hawaiian isle, Steve Jobs ? interim Apple CEO ? will mull over suggestions that he drop the "interim" from his title. "I'm trying to get away for a week, to walk on the beach and chill out and think about things," Jobs told reporters Thursday after hinting that he "might" assume permanent leadership of the struggling computer firm he co-founded in his parents' garage...
Woolworth is now a distant memory, and customers will have to do without some of their more unusual goods...