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...much fine material, put to such shoddy use. Like Woody Allen's Zelig, Heaven raids archives for vintage film clips; like Warren Beatty's Reds, it calls on witnesses to describe and argue about its theme. But both sources are compromised by the directorial sneer. Keaton rarely lets a remark or a film sequence run complete; instead she bends its intent to her skewed reading. The interviewees are photographed through cookie-cutout shadows, distracting the audience as well as the subjects. These are the techniques of a filmmaker short on trust, and the condescending tone rankles throughout. Sitting through Heaven...
...different stripe. MORGAN FREEMAN says his character "was at a lot of the hot spots in the world." (And, no, he doesn't mean nightclubs.) "He's burned out. He's seen a lot of rough stuff." The two actors, both from Memphis, Tenn., got on fine, but the Oscar winner says he didn't really take Timberlake under his wing. "He's very credible as an actor," Freeman says. "It wasn't necessary." That Mouseketeer Method training must really work...
Chaos and Creation is full of the melodies that have always been McCartney's trademark--the single, Fine Line, grabs you by the ear in four bars--but for the most part, they've been stripped of cuteness and nostalgia. What strikes you first is that the sad songs are really sad. At the Mercy gets past the sentimental and into the startling fact that genuine love can leave you powerless and insecure. Riding to Vanity Fair, a trippy ballad about rejected friendship, is the most misanthropic thing the composer of Ob-La-Di has ever recorded. He insists...
...wrote and produced some of the freshest-sounding pop tunes heard anywhere on the planet in the late '90s. But Okuda, as a purveyor of old-fashioned guitar rock, has always been more comfortable just outside the mainstream. His tenth solo album, Comp, shows that he's still in fine form as he approaches 40. Baby Star is classic Okuda: cranked-up, driving, unembellished. The gentle final track, Fune ni Noru (On a Boat), helps takes the edge off an otherwise boisterous musical ride?one with room for rock fans far beyond Japan's shores...
...more reason to be terrified, the blind seemed supremely calm in the helicopter, while many others who could see were crying. One young blind woman named Lavinia had even made sure she was wearing a neatly pressed blouse, blue skirt and white dress shoes for her evacuation. "I'm fine, just fine," she said as the helicopter lifted off and a crew member slipped a helmet over her head. The evacuees with sight shook their heads in stunned disbelief as they saw their sunken city from the windows. It was a possible explanation why Lavinia was so composed...