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Succeeding the likes of Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow, Allen’s golden girl du jour is Scarlett Johansson, back after her performance in the brilliant “Match Point.” Johansson plays Sondra Pransky, a gawky American journalism student as out of place in London as Allen’s on-screen alter ego, the cynical magician Sid Waterman. Not unlike Allen himself, Sid is searching for easy-to-please deep-pocketed clientele (which he finds in the stilted British upper class), and befriends Sondra along...
...time to shut this abomination down before we create even more enemies than we already have. We should try the detainees we can't immediately clear, punish the ones we convict and release the rest. Any possibility of extracting useful intelligence from the detainees passed years ago. Ken Keaton Lauderhill, Florida, U.S. Although I am a great believer in the U.S. as a force for good, the thought of Guantánamo Bay leaves me sickened and disillusioned. The detentions show that in some significant ways, the U.S. has become like its terrorist enemies. Gitmo exists because of a technicality...
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...there's ageism in modeling and acting. I'm dying to see Diane Keaton or Sissy Spacek more, and we don't see them as much. The story you hear over and over is about seducing a man and getting married, but women do much more than that. Maybe it will help having more women as directors, heads of cosmetic companies or heads of studios. It's the whole system...
...Screen comedy is at its best when it pitches it tent close to the poverty line. Think Chaplin, who once said that all he needed to be funny was a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Think Keaton, who once did a brilliant special-effects comedy, (Sherlock, Jr.) , where you were almost unaware of his very subtle camera tricks. Think Grant, Hepburn and their wayward leopard. For that matter, think Something About Mary, which pretty much took place in a cramped apartment. The minute the effects budget swells, it starts to crush the life out of comedy, which needs...