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...have proved. But there's no spark in this one. And no sparkle in Garner's playing. She's an attractive young woman, but her energy is low and her mood is endlessly wistful. Olyphant seems more of a male model than an actor, and the writer-director, Susannah Grant, does not know how to stir her actors up comedically or romantically...
...they throbbed with energy, perhaps because female behavior was such an enigma to them, perhaps because actresses like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were so headlong, so committed to the emotional extremes. You might not, in the end, believe them, but boy they were gripping to watch. Directors like Grant or Nancy Meyers (of The Holiday among other titles) want to keep their leading ladies unhysteric, as if descents into the irrational were somehow fuel for sexism. But the politely furrowed brow is fundamentally anti-dramatic. You want people in films like this to rip and snort their...
...knowledge of politics as he is in the arts. He is a frequent guest on television and of late was seen twice on the CBS network, commenting after President Reagan's press conference on the Iranian arms crisis and then, one morning last week, on the career of Cary Grant. By day, he wrote this week's cover story...
More important, Perot demanded much greater autonomy for EDS than Smith was prepared to grant. When Perot became impatient with the pace of change at GM and began carping publicly about the need to "nuke the GM system" and "teach an elephant to tapdance," the clash of personalities and cultures became increasingly intolerable. Ominously for Smith, the dispute threatened to escalate into a battle for control of GM. Says a source close to the conflict: "The question for the board was how it could have good corporate governance with two chief executive officers...
...their homes, even moving entire houses to higher ground. Erie, the shallowest lake, has grown especially dangerous as waves several feet high smash against homes. "We haven't had water levels like this since we started keeping records in 1860," says Philip Keillor, of the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. "And we've done a lot of building on the lake-front since then...