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Despite Hoffman's wonderfully gruff, implosive star performance -- he is so in tune with Dutch's desperation that even his murderous rages are sullen -- this is at heart a movie about the power of a beautiful, fearless woman. In Kidman, an improbable amalgam of Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith, Benton found Drew's embodiment. Toward the end, when she flies out of two men's lives, she seems an airborne goddess of artful deceit...
Even after listening to all the anguished testimony, who could ever feel confident that they knew what really happened? Which one was a liar of epic proportion? This was not a forum that lent itself to justice or even a fearless search for truth. The U.S. Senate is a stage normally reserved for politicians debating war and peace and issues draped in high ideals. It is not a forum accustomed to interrogations about large-breasted women having sex with animals...
...feminists and canceled his company's publication of American Psycho in the name of "taste." Amanda Urban, Ellis's agent, characterized the cancellation as "a giant corporation [Paramount Communications, which owns Simon & Schuster] responding to prepublication controversy and strong-arming its publishing division into abandoning its own tradition of fearless publishing...
...Caruba founded The Boring Institute, dedicated to the proposition that "There's No Excuse for Being Bored!" He designated July as "National Anti-Boredom Month." He began releasing his Fearless Forecasts of TV's Fall Flops. (Bad news for "Eerie, Indiana.") He began announcing his annual list of "The Most Boring Celebrities of the Year." (1990 champion: Donald Trump...
...panculturism, rock has found a little room to maneuver. "Rock's in a constant state of change and always mutating," Geoff Tate, lead singer of Queensryche, reminds us. "You're seeing the fusion of rock with funk. I mean, extreme ( black R.-and-B.-influenced rhythm sections." Also, a fearless rock band like Jesus Jones, fresh from London, manages to meld echoes of psychedelia with hot flashes of contemporary urban rhythm. The results are heady, challenging and abrasive, and unlikely to show up on a Subaru commercial anytime soon...