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...names drive careers and faces drive personas, we should have sympathy for politicians consigned by countenance to personalities they might not have chosen. As the midterm elections end and presidential hopefuls look ahead to 2008, there are perils for both the lovely and the unlovely. Those easy on the eye should take care not to overstate the point (MITT ROMNEY: MORE SYMMETRICAL THAN EVER!). Those with aesthetic hurdles should consider whether it's finally time for that eye lift or chin tuck. Remember, candidates think of November as a time to face the voters, but for the electorate...
...fact, Mary Poppins is not just a big, eye-pleasing production; it's Disney's most endearing, human-scaled and emotionally satisfying musical yet. The familiar Sherman Brothers score has been updated with seven new tunes (by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe), which blend in seamlessly--in some cases, even better than that, since they're more integral to character and plot, like Mary's sprightly, perfectly apropos opening number, Practically Perfect. The show strikes a nice balance between stage dazzle--avant-garde choreographer Matthew Bourne brings statues to life and defies gravity in more ways than one--and dramatic...
...What we must not ignore is the gross ineptitude of this film. As he previously demonstrated with Secretary, the director, Steven Shainberg, has a thoroughly nasty desire to degrade and humiliate female characters. This is combined with a truly tasteless eye for settings and d?cor, a staggering ignorance of nuance in performance and an apparent belief that the business of art is to repel rather than to seduce. Or rather to repel and then tack on a little spurious uplift as he finally does here. Another way of putting that is that he is precisely the opposite of Diane Arbus...
...First of all, it coincides with the moment when the cloud slices the moon...it’s kind of a statement about associations and metaphor, cutting an eye is like a cloud slicing the moon,” she says. “And then it’s also about filmmaking. You can argue that the cut is what filmmaking is about. So Buñuel puts himself in it I think partially as a commentary on film. Film is a cut. And also he had a theory that film should be a kind of violence...
...blink of an eye I’m in New York, buying movies and room service on the network’s dime. I’m wracked with nerves. I can barely sleep...