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Sometimes Hollywood does get it right, or almost right. Close Encounters of the Third Kind and this summer's Contact reawakened the human craving to reach out and touch those things we do not know. While the jolly Jet Propulsion Lab fellows liked to drown out the Martian silence with Twist and Shout, these movies are about the wisdom of being quiet enough to hear the otherworldly message--the simple sequence of chords that announces the aliens' arrival in Close Encounters, the pounding radio signal from Vega that Jodie Foster's character picks up in Contact...
Rabbi William Lebeau gives the final eulogy of the day. He speaks of Jonathan's "joy" in teaching and, in a tacit reference to the murder, warns against cynicism and despair. Even God despaired, he says, when he decided to drown the world. It took Noah to prove that a human being could be a worthwhile invention...
...just an uninspired shipboard melodrama with watery songs, predictable musings about the hubris of the enterprise, and a surfeit of cliched characters. They include the ship's craven owner, who keeps urging the captain to increase the speed; aristocrats like the John Jacob Astors and the Isidor Strauses, who drown with dignity; and some tiresomely idealistic Irish immigrants in steerage. What director Richard Jones and scenic designer Stewart Laing have accomplished, however, is an imaginative, even haunting, stage rendering of the sinking: the stage tilts ominously; faces of the doomed passengers appear at portholes like apparitions. Titanic's Broadway voyage...
...prodding the Federal Communications Commission to use free campaign air time as a quid pro quo for allowing broadcasters to switch over to technically superior digital signals. Underlying Clinton's maneuverings is a serious question for a democracy: does free speech include the right of wealthy special interests to drown out the voices of those who can't afford TV ads? Democrats as well as NewsCorp head Rupert Murdoch, whose scrappy Fox network is fight ing its larger competitors for market share, have emerged as advocates of free TV. But many Republicans, led by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, counter that...
...screen contrivance of Hamlet's locale is obvious, and the soldiers in the distance resemble reassembling chromosomes. An oft-shouting, fiery character to this point, Branagh's Hamlet begins to scream at the top of his voice as the camera pans away. But the booming drums of the soundtrack drown out his already incoherent yelling...