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...from Hong Kong and Miki (Junna Risa) from Japan?meet in France, then go on to Morocco, with dire results. For this English-language tale of sisterhood under stress, Cheung, whose 1989 Beyond the Sunset and 1992 Cageman won best picture at the Hong Kong Film Awards, has the gloss of sumptuous photography and lovely work by the two leads. But narrative implausibilities assure that Midnight Fly ... doesn't. Really, what are the odds that one woman's husband will be the other's lover? One in a billion? To court further incredulity, the film has Miki kidnapped to become...
...cuts too are real enough, though Bush's budgeteers did their best to gloss over them. The gluttonous spending increases in the last Clinton budget made the task easier. An explanatory document dispatched to reporters boasted, for example, that "the President's budget proposes a significant increase (+8%) above the Department of Energy's FY 2000 funding." But FY 2000 funding was two years ago. You have to read on to learn that "in total, [Energy] funds decrease by $457 million" from last year. Other programs are not eliminated, not exactly; they have their "resources redirected" to the point where...
...shift in priorities has a surface gloss of stylishness also. Call it thrifty chic. Penny pinching is back in vogue, even among the rich. Jackie O. shops at the Gap. Christie Brinkley wears plain white men's T shirts. Outside B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once...
...billion viewers around the world can pretend to understand. This year, that task fell to Martin, the first WASP to chair the event since David Letterman in 1995 (bad omen) and the first white-haired guy since Johnny Carson (1979-82 and 1984). Indeed, Martin's persona is a gloss on the old "Tonight Show" star; for 30 years he's played a doofus Carson, a smug buffoon. "Please," he said during his nine-minute opening monologue, "hold your applause until it's for me." Now, we know that the real Steve Martin, whoever that...
...Nikonchuk will most likely gloss over a few reference materials...