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...children of senior Party members) who have benefited enormously from China's growth and want the good times to keep rolling. Huang and others fear that if Hu doesn't manage to consolidate his grip on power, "China could be heading for a catastrophe." Given those stakes, even the drollest Beijingers are likely to take the announcement of China's new slate of senior leaders, expected Oct. 22, as very serious news indeed...
...fault the stars. Fraser is that lovely commodity, a big man with physical grace and an underdog charm. He's drollest in his early scenes as the consummate loser with a coprophagous grin--a character perilously close to Rob Schneider's needy-nerdy copy-machine guy on Saturday Night Live years ago. (Similarly, O'Connor looks so much like the younger Kathie Lee Gifford that she could be accused of face-lifting.) Hurley slinks through her role with the purr and swagger of a dominatrix in the Profumo years. Her lithe body has the sexy lines that are often missing...
...tamps down his natural charisma to get at a good man's frustration in abiding by the stern moral rules that he set for the tribunal. In melodrama, of course, the villains always win; they're the ones who get to strut. Thus Brian Cox, as Goering, has his drollest mass-murderer role since he played Hannibal Lecter in the 1986 Manhunter; and Herbert Knaup (of Run, Lola, Run) is a handsomely conflicted Albert Speer...
...that half the world seemed to know about? McCurry's answer: "I was aware of the potential for deception, but I just didn't want to believe [Clinton] had the capacity to deceive." No doubt his new bosses in the private sector will appreciate that kind of loyalty. The drollest of press spokesmen may claim to feel "free at last" after three years on the White House podium -- but part of him, it seems, will never leave...
...case of Charles Starkweather, the 1950s spree killer. Unlike, say, Natural Born Killers, the film is less interested in violence than in the ways in which its two self-absorbed romantics fail to communicate with each other and yet somehow bond; to wit, the dialogue includes some of the drollest non sequiturs in movie history...