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...Africa Bolton 's Image Problem Re Your story on the controversy surrounding John Bolton, Bush's choice as ambassador to the U.N. [May 2]: Does the U.S. really want a contender for worst boss to represent it to the rest of the world? A former colleague called him a "kiss-up, kickdown sort of guy." Too many of us know the type. All of us should feel the injustice every time that sort of person is rewarded. The U.S. has an image problem in much of the world. We're seen as out of control, arrogant and a bully...
...sits alone in his upscale home, placidly depressed and expecting nothing. The film is structured as a series of diminishing returns. His first encounter, with Stone and her flirtatious daughter Lolita (Alexis Dziena), has pretty swatches of uncomfortable humor and a touching grace note, when Stone impulsively bows to kiss Tom's hand. The second episode also has its moments, as Conroy and her Babbitty husband (Christopher McDonald) leave Don more flummoxed than ever. But each meeting is increasingly shorter, with the third (Lange) perfuntory and the fourth (Swinton, looking great in a dark wig and a defiant rage) last...
...your story on the controversy surrounding John Bolton, Bush's choice as ambassador to the U.N. [May 2]: Does the U.S. really want a contender for worst boss to represent it to the rest of the world? A former colleague called him a "kiss-up, kickdown sort of guy." Too many of us know the type. All of us should feel the injustice every time that sort of person is rewarded. The U.S. has an image problem in much of the world. We're seen as out of control, arrogant and a bully. Yet the Administration wants...
...wait. We are obliged to swat another effort in the vandalism of the cinematic cemetery, Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. This crime-laced comedy, narrated by Robert Downey, Jr., as a two-bit hood turned movie actor, is meant to be a parody of Hollywood action films, especially the ones produced by Joel Silver, who produced here. Running on the fumes of countless bad movies, Black concocts what might work at five mins. as a slam-tribute at a Joel Silver roast...
...Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a demonstration - worse, a celebration - of the dead end Hollywood movies have hit. Fortunately, Cannes offered a palate cleanser, a detoxification, in the form of Stuart Samuels' documentary Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream. It focuses on six films - El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, The Harder They Come, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pink Flamingos and Eraserhead - that earned cult status in the 70s through midnight screenings at venues like Ben Barenholtz's Elgin Theatre in Manhattan...