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...rift betweenNew York City Mayor Rudolph Giulianiandincoming New York Gov. George Pataki-- fodder for talk show barbs ever since Pataki refused to return the mayor's congratulatory phone call -- may be on the mend, at least on the public relations level. The governor-elect last night finally agreed to meet one-on-one with Giuliani, who broke GOP ranks to endorse Democratic incumbent Gov. Mario Cuomo this fall. The ice-breaker: Pataki relented on tight fiscal proposals affecting the city's public employees and schools. The standoff had caught the notice ofDavid Letterman, who listed...
Wrongheaded and tortuous as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The "news of the Rialto" becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions -- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance -- the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride...
...family dog McKenzie and attractive if vacuous wife ("You've got to incent [sic] people to behave in a more appropriate pattern to break the cycle of really inappropriate...and life is so precious you just don't want to cheat these children out of their potential...") provides much fodder for commentators...
After his death in 1978, Ed Wood got the last laugh: his films were rediscovered, first as camp and now as fodder for a light industry in cultural revisionism. The shaggy hagiography includes a breezily lurid documentary, Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora; a second documentary on the making of Plan 9; and even a porno homage -- Plan 69 from Outer Space. And now there's Tim Burton's surprisingly listless biopic, known simply as Ed Wood. Once a never-was, Wood is now a brand name...
...seen this type of wartime melodrama too many times before. The officers are all cannibalistic monsters, the bedraggled rank and file scream cannon fodder, and the black and white cinematography, far from a stark, chilling revelation of the nightmare that is war, is predictable and bland...