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...century resembles the work of any single SF writer, it must surely be J.G. Ballard. One might make an argument for the prescience of William Burroughs (if you're a junkie) or the uncanny knack of William Gibson (if you're a career computer criminal). But Ballard is surely the most insightful artist the genre ever produced. While most SF writers of his generation were down at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory cheering on the moon landings, Ballard was in a London art gallery throwing a Pop Art happening with a crashed car and a topless model. Ballard's approach...
...keep her salary down. According to the Hollywood Reporter, JULIA ROBERTS will become the first female to break into the formerly all-male $20 million club for the forthcoming film Erin Brockovich. Roberts joins such handsomely remunerated actors as the two Toms (Hanks and Cruise), Jim Carrey and Mel Gibson. The film, based on the true story of a legal secretary who takes on an environmental-pollution case and wins one of the largest class-actions ever, will be directed by Steven Soderbergh and co-produced by Universal and Sony, with each paying half the actress's salary. Now Roberts...
...Porter, Gibson really takes the suffering-for-your-art mantra to a new level, kind of like the Samaritan who lies down on the oil slick so you can walk on him to get over the puddle. With each new movie, he ups the ante, symbolically slathering more mustard on the dog so that it becomes more about how much torment he can take rather than about the movie itself. The evolution of this Method throughout his career shoves subtlety where it don't shine. Mad Max meets Martin Riggs meets Braveheart equals Porter, the con man with a heart...
...with the city and its environs, plotting. We get the feeling from the start that he's just biding his time, a shark circling its prey, but he does take the whole thing a little too seriously. His bad-ass persona seems a bit silly considering he is Mel Gibson the goofy guy who gets a kick out of life. This is definitely a case where celebrity transcends any attempt at getting into character...
...time that could be put to better use by Lucy Liu, legal eagle by prime time, dial-a-dominatrix in this celluloid romp. She deliciously performs her duties on Porter's ex-partner and is even called upon to give Porter some gun-totin' lovin. As Pearl, she is Gibson's true foil in this movie, she likes to inflict pain as much as he likes to take it. Suffice it to say, it's celebrity death match made in heaven...