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What makes it shine is that Ondaatje alchemizes these abstract spaces with a poet's fluent radiance. Scene after scene shimmers with the jeweled brilliance of Arab poetry. The Indian alone, in the course of his wanderings, walks through cities where corpses are strung from trees and sleeps beside angels...
The characters are interpreted with Shavian wit and style. Mr. Tarleton is especially striking. He is played by Jeremy Geidt, who exudes to perfection the jolly vulgarity of a man who kisses his wife too loudly, a man who drops his "h"'s and speaks with the accent of a...
Yes, yes, we've heard all the jokes: we know that "spacy" and "flaky" seem almost to have been invented for California and that in the dictionary California is a virtual synonym for "far out." Ever since gold was first found flowing in its rivers, the Shangri-La La of...
Jack Nicholson's best performance in the past five years? With all due respect to Batman and The Witches of Eastwick, it just may be a half-hour stint Nicholson did for, of all things, a children's video. He is narrator of The Elephant's Child, an adaptation of...
Rudyard Kipling notwithstanding, Mandalay has neither flying fishes nor even a bay; Burma's second city sits on an arid plain. For the clergy of the Phaya- gyi monastery, however, the dawn really did come up like thunder one morning last week as government troops raided the 206-year-old...