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...films having more trouble finding an audience than the music and books? America's current cultural insularity aside, the musicals are a hard sell. At three hours-plus, with family-loyalty plots out of the hoariest Hollywood weepies, and all that singing, a Bollywood epic is too old-fashioned for the art-house crowd and too sedate, too girlie, for young males...
...hoariest stereotypes of Japan is that the national genius is one of adaptation rather than invention - that it is a nation of copycats rather than creators. However, the Japanese have a good claim to having invented the novel. Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari), written some 600 years before Don Quixote, is a weirdly fascinating narrative of erotic and court intrigue. For Western readers it can only reinforce the image of Japan as, in Yukio Mishima's words, "a nation of flower arrangers...
Check, check, check. Yep, they're all here, all the spy-movie conventions--right down to the hoariest of them all, two agents meeting at a park bench and identifying one another with a coded phrase. What is not present in Mission: Impossible (which, aside from the title, sound-track quotations from the theme song and self-destructing assignment tapes, has little to do with the old TV show) is a plot that logically links all these events or characters with any discernible motives beyond surviving the crisis of the moment...
...sort of rogue-cop tricks Fuhrman boasted about in his interviews with screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny. Yet on the day of the O.J. verdict, when Chief Williams commented on the public's obvious loss of faith in his department, he could muster nothing better than the police world's hoariest cliche: "The few bad apples that came out in the trial," he said, "are not reflective of the L.A.P.D...
...Stager's) which had no basis in my text or in my head. He said he believed me. But, clearly, he didn't believe me enough to forgo writing a letter to The Crimson (December 10), and what a letter! The letter compares me to Senator Joseph McCarthy, the hoariest of gambits to try to shut someone up, but an insidious gambit, nonetheless...