Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rendering the unique pantheon of Savannah personalities as mere cartoons and focusing too much on a long, drawn-out murder trial. John Cusack fumbles through the role of the script's too-young, too-straight stand-in for Berendt's narrator. But despite these flaws, Kevin Spacey shines as Jim Williams, the enigmatic gay antiques dealer who kills his lover in what may or may not have been selfdefense...
...Jim C. Augustine '01, too, goes beyond the call of duty as Pish-Tush, a secondary member of the local nobility, brightening the stage with manic clowning and energetically comic embellishments of every conceivable line and mannerism. And Jaclyn A. Huberman '01 busts out in the role of Yum-Yum's sister Pitti-Sing, delivering a hilariously physical performance as the tough-minded and aggressively sexy schoolgirl...
Shannon Glynn's Eisenstein was hilarious, but his upper register was too pinched. As the police chief Frank, Jim Jordon was convincingly clueless, and had the appealing likeness of a Don Martin character in MAD Magazine...
...Fine, Jim--build the damned ship, sink the damned ship. But in the 90 or so minutes before the iceberg slices open the starboard side, some compelling romantic fiction is in order. Here the film fails utterly. It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate...
...that allows absolutist thinkers like Hersh to handle history the way Geraldo handles news is the same democracy that forces leaders to compromise consistently as they work toward important goals. Hersh's version of the truth seems to come from a mind as immoral as those he rails against. JIM MURPHY Senior Broadcast Producer, 48 Hours CBS News New York City