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...Unfortunately, Pitt isn't a natural comedian, he doesn't have much range, and he has problems creating a coherent character. One moment Joe is ridiculously inept; the next an almighty deity. For example, he comes to Earth having no idea what peanut butter is--he literally probes the jar for minutes and waxes poetic over the gooey sweetness. Later in the movie, however, he offers his own perspective on the IRS and denounces a fellow character's "Machiavellian machinations." Fast learner...
...lecture lasted more than two hours, and dragged toward the end when Koch displayed the Wallace Stevens poem "Anecdote of the Jar" on an overhead projector to demonstrate some keys to reading poetry. Alarmingly, he turned Stevens' very sophisticated poem into a cartoon,delighting in the story of "this magic little jarwhich conquers Tennessee," and, while allowingthat more nuanced readings of the poem werepossible, he seemed so strongly by temperament toresist such readings that he effectively arguedagainst them. The key to enjoying this poem, heheld, lay in the music of its sounds and thesilliness of its story, and there...
This is a story of a pot of gold, but instead of a rainbow, there's a lawsuit over it. Next Monday JANN WENNER is due to show up in Idaho with a mason jar of old gold coins as the first step in a court case over who owns it. Construction worker GREGORY CORLISS, above, right, claims he was digging a driveway on Wenner's woodsy hideaway in Idaho when he noticed some coins in the soil. On further inspection, he and his boss, LARRY ANDERSON, found a mason jar full of them, dating from 1857 to 1914. Corliss...
...that helps jar British theater out of what he dubs its "cycle of boredom," so be it. "I want to write plays that shake you up a little bit," he says, "plays that a film fan would be interested in seeing, like the new De Niro movie." He's already got a lot of them waiting eagerly for the new McDonagh play...
...There are telltale silences, though. The Rev. Alvin Miller, Bethel's associate pastor, refuses to share the Bethel pulpit with Lyons, glowering from the pews. "When you've done wrong, the Lord is going to forgive you," he says, "but if you get caught taking cookies out of the jar, you've still got to suffer the consequences...