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...weren't nearly as much fun. Evans was busted for possession of cocaine, and a vicious murder was tied to the production of his ambitious box-office flop The Cotton Club. After contemplating suicide and escaping from a mental hospital, and while producing last year's insipid sex thriller Sliver, Evans did what any well-traveled mogul looking for a comeback would do: he wrote his memoirs...
Cinema: New jock city: a recent crop of movies reduces the glory of sport to insipid, inspirational slapstick...
...Judy Davis's lips silicon-injected? If Ted Demme (the director) is related to Jonathan Demme, isn't Jonathan Demme embarrassed? Why wasn't Macaulay Culkin in this movie? These are the questions that gnawed at my brain as the one-liners reached an insipid tedium. Also, I was sure that the town setting was suposed to be a cinematic rendering of Marblehead, Mass (town hall, docks, little white churches, references to Republicans), but then someone in the movie said "our relatives are coming down from Boston for Christmas." I could only conclude that this wasn't Marblehead: the Marblehead...
...Getaway" holds our attention because its pace gradually quickens into a whirlwind. It is a film packed with hilarity, action and fun. The best part about it is that the people who collectively embody all the insipid, distasteful, and downright repugnant personality traits that one might encounter in the course of daily life get blown away. It's very cathartic that...
David B. Lat's insipid ranting about the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism ("The Absence of Rational Minds," Feb 10, 1994) is off-base and a blatant example of the Harvard right-wing's lack of a sense of humor...