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Anyway, danger lies in the influence that the XFL could have on other sports bodies. Once fans latch on to the XFL, the traditional leagues may respond with changes of their own and blur of the line between sport and lower-brow forms of entertainment even more...
When she speaks this morning, Carrington says she will try to give her listeners "something to latch onto," just like the message her father gave her many years...
...chemistry develops with Ophelia because Stiles spends much of her screen time pouting and skulking. The only discernable reason that the two are a match for one another is because they are equally petulant. Hamlet does not represent "the courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye," just a spoiled latch-key kid whose parents didn't hug him enough. Thankfully, the two are saved by the supporting cast. Bill Murray as Polonius injects significant pathos into Polonius' foppish politicking and Liev Schriber demonstrates some exceptionally tender moments before he departs in the opening act. In their short time together, this...
What a weird predicament. I crept up the stairs. Just as I reached the door and tried the latch, the security guards noticed and once again came running?...
...film so far, nobody zealously praising its merit or damning it straight to video release. The reason for the lukewarm reaction is that The Virgin Suicides has a character crisis. Lacking a central protagonist, the film keeps the viewer detached . There is no character that the audience can latch on to or place its empathy with. There are the five Lisbon sisters, their two parents, the numerous neighborhood admirers, the unidentified narrator, Trip Fontaine, etc. The audience has trouble keeping count of all these faces and names, and no character materializes as the focus of the story. A multi-faceted...