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...performance as the son of fugitive radicals trying to raise a family. And if flashbacks weren't evident, portents were. The 1991 My Own Private Idaho, for which he won the National Society of Film Critics' best-actor award, begins and ends with Phoenix, as a drugged-out gay hustler, suffering narcoleptic convulsions...
...books are smashed and chessmen trashed. Josh plays catch in a sepulchral chess club, inhabited by a veritable cuckoo's nest of chess nuts. The movie also distorts the chess education of this bantam Rocky. It has Josh learning almost equally from Pandolfini (Ben Kingsley) and a kindly street hustler (Laurence Fishburne). In fact, Pandolfini was the boy's main teacher. Kingsley does have a charismatic gravity and the carriage of -- Fred Waitzkin's phrase -- "a ruined aristocrat." In portraying a teacher whom Josh refers to as "a great friend, a wonderful man," Kingsley also has a touch...
Interests mean boredom. (As in the "interests" people list in "personal ads" -- "Schoenberg, late Heidegger and Hustler" -- or in the bodies known as "interest groups." Of course, you will already have found that "personal" in any case means "impersonal"; thus a "personal ad" is, in fact, a highly impersonal solicitation for companionship...
What the Duvals require is a miracle, the restoration of Olivier, the sunny source of their little universe's gravitational power, and after the passage of a few years, Holland provides them with that astonishment. He appears in the unlikely form of an adolescent Parisian street hustler (Gregoire Colin). But the Duvals, even skeptical Nadine, are not inclined to question him closely. If he is a lie, he is the saving lie they all need, and in the end he does accidentally provide the definitive answer to the mystery that has riven them...
...fact, the key to cyberpunk science fiction is that it is not so much a projection into the future as a metaphorical evocation of today's technological flux. The hero of Neuromancer, a burned-out, drug-addicted street hustler named Case, inhabits a sleazy INTERZONE on the fringes of a megacorporate global village where all transactions are carried out in New Yen. There he encounters Molly, a sharp-edged beauty with reflective lenses grafted to her eye sockets and retractable razor blades implanted in her fingers. They are hired by a mysterious employer who offers to fix Case's damaged...