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There is a jolt of deja vu right at the opening of Paul McCartney Up Close. It comes when the boyish ex-Beatle walks onstage and waves to the throng of cheering fans at New York City's Ed Sullivan Theater -- the same theater where ! the Beatles made their American TV debut on Feb. 9, 1964. "We didn't even know who Ed Sullivan was when we got here," McCartney recalls in one of the reflective segments interspersed between songs. "But that was part...
...DOMESTICATED DAVID LYNCH? IT was looking bad for a while. After giving the medium a jolt with Twin Peaks, he let the series run too long on circuit overload. His next show, On the Air, was a heavy-handed TV satire just slightly to the left of WKRP in Cincinnati. But the old, weird Lynch is back in HOTEL ROOM, an HBO trilogy of stories, two of them directed by Lynch from scripts by Barry Gifford. A hooker (Glenne Headly) is caught in a psychological sparring match between a seedy customer and his mysterious friend; a husband (Crispin Glover) tries...
...that Karan's designs, unlike those of some of her rivals, work as well for a size 10 as a size 6. And while Lauren, say, can get away with minimal variation in his womenswear lines from year to year, Karan's customers look to her for a jolt of the new, season after season...
...announced so abruptly by George Bush, America's mission to the Horn of Africa is intended to be a quick fix, a jolt of military muscle to make the country safe for humanitarian aid. Once the so-called secure environment for relief operations ordained by last week's Security Council resolution has been achieved, U.S. troops are supposed to hand over their responsibilities to a smaller, traditional force of U.N. peacekeepers, not yet formed or financed. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater even suggested that the U.S. military operation could be over by Inauguration...
...biopic subject later. Perhaps that is why his movie is so stately, reverent and academic, so suitable for the Oscars with which Hollywood rewards high-minded mediocrity. Some other director will have to find a way to merge the danger of a brilliant, racist orator with the seismic jolt of energized filmmaking. That picture will be worth skipping school...