Word: elfman
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...fact, Kraft is ultimately responsible for the music in every movie and TV show released by 20th Century Fox. In his job, Kraft may spend one day convincing Sting to write a hit song and the next helping Danny Elfman write fitting music for Planet of the Apes...
...services when the energy level begins to ebb by spicing up their sermons with stand-up comedy. At one point, Jake actually says, "But seriously, folks," to his congregation as he brings in a gospel choir to serenade his temple. But when their old childhood friend Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman) comes back into their lives, a complicated love triangle develops as both holy men tempt a fall from grace. Their sudden crush on Anna presents a formidable problem for both men: For Jake, it's that Anna is a gentile, and for Brian, there's that pesky vow of celibacy...
...Everybody Says I Love You_ and in particular, demonstrates a sympathetic vulnerability when he questions himself about his religious faith (a vulnerability that is accented by the haloed look created by his newly dyed blond hair). Ben Stiller is amusing but unexceptional as Brian's foil, and Jenna Elfman is exceedingly perky as the workaholic Anna Reilly, whose greatest accomplishment thus far has been talking McDonald's out of the McOyster. In particular, Elfman is given a chance to break out of her television mold as she plays a business-driven character who is essentially the anti-Dharma, and demonstrates...
starring Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, and Jenna Elfman...
...different ways. Of course the guys behave stupidly at the end of Act 2, so there can be an Act 3. Like most recent films, it's long on running time and short on visual elegance. But it has a warming reticence, a fond awareness of its characters' frailties. Elfman is a natural; she radiates. And Norton is excellent at playing that rarity, a man with a heart both cunning and innocent. He even dyed his hair blond because "I wanted Brian to have a halo--a sun-kissed, God-touched kind of thing." As we said: blessed...