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...Here's another question: What if that ultimate Frank Capra movie had never been made? We fear Hollywood would have been stuck for a what-if plot for its year-end inspirationals. Michael Sloane's script butters the Capra-corn with another '40s touchstone: Preston Sturges' Hail the Conquering Hero, about a 4-F fellow mistaken as a war hero when he returns home. Here the unwilling impostor is a screenwriter (Carrey) who escapes Hollywood when he's marked for blacklisting and ends up an amnesiac in a town claiming him as its own. Suddenly he's got a father...
...young and handsome; he runs a flourishing media empire; he has just had sex with an adoring Cameron Diaz. And, oh, across a crowded room he sees Penelope Cruz. How bad can life be? Pretty bad for the hero of this Americanization of the 1997 Spanish thriller Open Your Eyes. After a car accident, he awakes in a face mask, horribly disfigured and wary of everything around him. "Once you've gone over a bridge at 80 m.p.h.," he says, "you don't invite happiness in without a full body search...
...metal detector for this oddball essay on the lure of the forbidden, the lucidity of dreams. Lots goes wrong here, so we'll just pick on the dialogue. Cruz's English is often unintelligible; Lee, who plays the hero's intellectual friend, can't pronounce the word intellectual; and Diaz is forced to utter the most off-putting line in recent movies (let's just say it includes the word swallowed). The poor dear plays a character so shrill and needy that it makes Diaz almost not fantastically attractive...
Since Sept. 11, strange things have happened to Phil Godfrey. Hailed as a hero, he also lost his job when Benchmark started layoffs. He has visited ground zero three times, trying hard to weep, but he can't. People have said he did amazing things that he didn't do: hoist a woman down the stairs, give someone a $50 bill to get home. Instead, he did the simple work of a man who has learned that, as he says, "we need each other." He is reminded of that every Sunday at Harlem's Kelly Temple Church...
Turncoat, hero, ingrate, revolutionary. Folks around Capitol Hill called Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords a lot of things this year, but as of May 24 there's one thing they couldn't call him: Republican. Jeffords' sudden switch to independent--he saw the G.O.P. moving too far right of his moderate viewpoint--ended the Republican Party's control of Congress. "Democrats got to set the agenda instead of reacting to a Republican President," says a senior Senate Democratic aide. "That is a huge change...