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...scientific team assembled by writers Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, adapting an old Michael Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find...
...Brentwood News item about the opening of a Whole Foods market. Sighted pushing carts filled with such items as bottled water and organic carrots were Brooke Shields, Steven Spielberg, Ellen DeGeneres, Sophia Loren and the cast of Melrose Place. One more nugget pulled from the News: "Dustin Hoffman recently bought the home of an elderly lady so he wouldn't have to walk across her flowers to get to his tennis courts...
Just opened off-Broadway in a strong if not ideally cast production, Shopping revolves around three young London roommates. Mark (Philip Seymour Hoffman) leaves for a detox center in an effort to kick his heroin habit. Robbie and Lulu (Justin Theroux and Jennifer Dundas Lowe) keep busy by dealing drugs for a scuzzy TV producer (Matthew Sussman). They reunite when Mark brings home a young hustler (Torquil Campbell), who takes part in a sordid bout of fantasy game playing that makes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? look like Scrabble...
...charges are true, Clinton may of course survive. (I thought that by now O.J. Simpson would be doing life without parole.) We live in an age when almost nothing is too squalid to be transcended. What Clinton needs now is a producer like the one played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Wag the Dog, a man who, when confronted with a hideously impossible public relations problem like the one facing Clinton, announces bouncily, "This is NOTHING...
...tenuous moments. De Niro, for the first time in ages, is wonderfully likeable in the antihero role. We should hate, loath, despise Brean for his shameless dishonesty--but we don't. Instead, we welcome his machinations and feel strangely vindicated by the possibility of his pulling off the scheme. Hoffman is the perfect counterpart to De Niro's smug political monster. He vamps and raves about how 'producers get no respect,' and we get the strange sensation that he is himself a unabashed politician...