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...would all be hidden behind the opaque visors of the lunar helmets. But there's no shortage of famous voices. John Travolta, Matt Damon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Scott Glenn can all be heard reading the real moon walkers' historic reflections as the movie moon walkers explore the faux surface. The plum role--NASA nobleman Neil Armstrong--is voiced by Hollywood nobleman Morgan Freeman. Armstrong's characteristically minimalist style suited the actor. "Morgan looked at Armstrong's lines, nodded and said, 'O.K., let's do this,'" says director Mark Cowen...
...sculpture studios seem to prioritize commercial expedience over artistic tradition, and put a chaotic jumble of tat on sale?you'll come across everything from Christmas decorations to carvings of decidedly non-native lions and giraffes. The paintings also betray a m?lange of foreign influences, with pseudo-Impressionism and faux-Expressionism finding particular favor among local daubers targeting the tourist dollar...
...seem to prioritize commercial expedience over artistic tradition, and put a chaotic jumble of tat on sale - you'll come across everything from Christmas decorations to carvings of decidedly non-native lions and giraffes. The paintings also betray a mélange of foreign influences, with pseudo-Impressionism and faux-Expressionism finding particular favor among local daubers targeting the tourist dollar. That said, the prices of objets d'art are low and bargaining is expected. You can start your negotiations by cutting the stated price by at least 50%, and pick up a miniature, framed original painting for less than...
...series hopscotches to so many locations (the Carolinas, the Antarctic, the ocean trenches) that you briefly forget that it gives you no reason to feel afraid or intrigued or anything else. It does aim, clumsily, at a sense of wonder, with so much faux Spielberg--a boy hiding a creature in his house, à la E.T.; an average guy who becomes obsessed with the secret, à la Close Encounters--that NBC might as well have called this Jaws: The Series. Instead it was called Fathom, then renamed the equally limp Surface. Now people can't say, "I cannot fathom...
...homage but a work of real originality. Smith has a virtuoso talent for capturing dialect, which makes her dialogue almost audible. Belsey's son Levi, a mixed-race child of privilege who takes a weekend job hustling knockoff handbags with Haitian immigrants on the streets of Boston, speaks perfect faux Brooklyn: "This ain't like workin' the counter at CVS! You hustling, man ... That's street." Belsey's southern teaching assistant Smith J. Miller spends half of his appearances trying to explain "pah-point" (Power Point) presentations to the Luddite professor. More striking is Smith's ability to make...