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...grim litany rings out in every synagogue in the country every year, last Thursday included. A key passage in the liturgy for Yom Kippur, the somber Jewish holiday of repentance, bids believers to speculate on the ways to die. "Who by fire and who by water," they read in unison. "Who by the sword and who by wild beasts, who by famine and who by drought..." It is a hard passage. Wild beasts? There are usually some raised eyebrows...
Where Training Day, as written by David Ayer, goes wrong is at the end, when their conflict turns into open warfare and the bad cop is isolated and left to his own grim fate. You don't quite believe that Alonzo's once supportive neighbors would suddenly turn their backs on him when his crimes are exposed. You mean to say they never knew? You mean to say they didn't take a certain satisfaction in the way he bent the system to his own advantage? This resort to conventional morality betrays the amoral logic of the movie...
...nice turn as a fussy store clerk, and one doesn't feel particularly sorry for the drippy fiances (Bridget Moynahan and John Corbett), who exist mainly to be dumped and whose roles define the word thankless. Peter Chelsom's direction is conventionally pretty--and an improvement on his grim Town & Country...
...DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS An A.P. picture of smoke pouring out of the World Trade Center was the talk of the Web last week. Not because it was poignant or much different from dozens of other pictures, but because hundreds of people claimed to see the grim face of Satan in the smoke. The A.P. says the photo was unaltered. We've republished the image so that you can take a look yourself. time.com/webhoax...
...Just because Helmut Newton is 80 and has a major new show of his work doesn't mean he's getting soft. Hardly. One of his landscapes, The Grim Reaper, above, was shot for Absolut Vodka. The firm chose not to use it because it was deemed too dark for a mainstream audience. Newton recently sat down at the Barbican with a menagerie of onlookers - students, fans and perverts - for an interview...