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...CRITICS LOVE IT A movie about the making of a legendary silent movie, E. Elias Merhige's atmospheric drama imagines that Max Schreck, the actor who played the Dracula-like Count Orlock in the 1922 classic Nosferatu, really was a vampire. John Malkovich parades in fine, fey style as German director F.W. Murnau, and Dafoe, unrecognizable in Schreck's rodentoid pallor, is a hoot and a horror as the ultimate Method actor...
...title of the album was taken from a Shakespearean idea of an alternate world where you learned things you don't necessarily want to know about yourself, as Williams described it. This wild, fey place is best expressed through such naturalistic songs as "We Learned the Sea" and "Calling the Moon," both of which feature haunting melodies and lyrics that invite the listener to walk under the night sky. As might be expected from someone who began her career on the Boston-Cambridge open-mike circuit, Williams also uses her voice for protest as well as for emotional expression...
With the ratio of bad to good Saturday Night Live movies hovering at about 6 to 1, can you blame MIKE MYERS for practicing a little quality control? The comedian claims he tried to delay production of Dieter, a movie based on his fey, monkey-toting German SNL character, because the script, his own, wasn't funny. Not satisfied with that explanation, Universal Pictures last week sued Myers for $5 million, claiming that he actually pulled out of the movie during a May 30 meeting, after the studio had already laid out millions in production costs and made Dieter...
...harder to articulate in an entertainment product, and in reality." Or perhaps it's that men's magazines and TV shows are simply offering up images of masculinity that stand in high relief to the ones recent pop culture has provided: the wimpy and neurotic males on Friends, the fey brothers Crane on Frasier, the emotionally broken Detective Sipowicz of NYPD Blue, the guys in the movie Swingers, whose nostalgia for Rat Pack swagger never really expresses itself in anything beyond a taste for suits and cocktails...
...hand" [NOTEBOOK, March 15], Joel Stein writes, "A woman who must have been a model removed a bottle from her purse. She raised it high and squirted a long stream down onto her cupped hands." The woman must have been very nimble, three-armed or a magician. CHRISTOPHER FEY Los Angeles...