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...unself-conscious way. Women seem to have no inner motivations at all, except a heart-felt desire to be long-suffering or mercenary and spunky. This is Laurence Dunmore’s first directorial effort, and he seems obsessed with showing how dirty the seventeenth century was, which I guess is a pretty noble pursuit. Thus, everyone’s hair is disgusting, fingernails are teeming with grime, and the floors are perpetually covered in bodily fluids. England is shown as being encased in a yellow uncertain fog, and over-flowing with perpetual massive orgies. The film is aesthetically ambitious...
...when its president behaves like another authoritarian leader sitting on vast fossil fuel reserves—Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Furthering his “Bolivarian” revolution and profiting from his oily dollars, Chávez is buying military equipment from Spain and AK-47s (guess where from) for his growing “security forces.” As the Bush administration turns its eyes away from Latin America, Chávez buys influence in the region by aiding Caribbean economies and helping his Argentine “brother” President Néstor...
...upper-crust tormentors. Johansson brings to the role a ferocity touched by terror that is new to her work. And impressive. It surely draws on Allen's rich writing but not necessarily his directing. He's famously hands-off in that department, which is just fine with Johansson. "I guess he hires actors he thinks will be capable of rounding out the characters he's written," she says. "I think actors appreciate that kind of respect." Allen has returned the compliment in the most meaningful way he can, by hiring Johansson for his next picture. It's a comedy called...
...time on a computer screen and to think of the one word that was associated with all of them. After each word?red, nut, bowl, loom, cup, basket, jelly, fresh, cocktail, candy, pie, baking, salad, tree, fly, etc.?they had to give their best guess. Although many swore they had no idea until a sudden burst of insight at about the 12th word, their guesses got progressively closer to the solution: fruit. Even when an idea seems sudden, our minds have actually been working on it all along...
...usually describe it as throwing spitballs. Washington is a lot like high school, and they were missing a class clown, I guess...