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...success of this attempt at full exposure is due in great part to the performances-this is perhaps the most precisely acted ensemble piece ever filmed. Robards, who has mastered the part of the stubborn old grump, is truly great here, shading Earl Partridge with the lowing regret and pained self-knowledge of a man acutely aware that his end is nearing. Two-thirds through the film, he delivers a soliloquy that tragically articulates the pall hovering over all of Magnolia's characters, and as he moans his words of warning, we can sense him clutching the pieces...
...might expect McCartney, as an elder statesman of rock, to be a grump about the state of today's pop music, but he actually thinks it's going along quite fine. He even has (mostly) generous things to say about Oasis, the aggressively youthful British rock band that in recent years has been accused of ripping off the Beatles' sound. Says McCartney: "I like the fact that they're live and they can play their instruments. I like the fact that they honor us by using us as their source, so it's a tribute. I certainly...
...farm in New York's Hudson Valley, and Helprin became the first person in years to give voice to another aloof, inscrutable character. Getting the resignation speech right for the brusque rhythms of the majority leader took a dozen sessions of phone editing. Dole would read a passage, then grump, "Can't say that"; "Don't want to say that." Out went Helprin's flower arrangements, but what was left rang true...
EVERY TIME I SEE A FAVORITE WOODLAND area laid waste for yet another shopping mall, I gnash my teeth and think, Well, I have just lived too long and become a moss-backed old grump. But by jingo, it ain't true! Your Hubble space photos have put the wonderment back into my life! What's a little more concrete on an obscure planet circling a minor star compared to the crushing and splendiferous grandeur of all that's going on out there? WALTER MITCHELL JR. Dunwoody, Georgia...
Unfortunately, many of the film's other characters are merely cardboard props that pop up at convenient times: Evie's closet sensitive boyfriend, her shallow in-group friends, Randy's family, her timid gay-guy friend and her aunt, a grump who snaps at everyone in the house like Archie Bunker with...