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...lives recounted in high style. That has become the sensational British movie genre of our times. Think I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. Or Sexy Beast. Or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The newest, Layer Cake, is among the best of this mutt breed--undistinguished bloodlines that have somehow produced a sleek, fast-moving movie creature...
...Layer Cake features, yes, an antihero with no name and no backstory. He's simply called XXXX in the credits, and he's played by a gelid Daniel Craig. He is a) a drug dealer and b) a man who, having made his pile, wishes to abandon his life of crime and start hanging about at posh country clubs. But prosperous as he is, he is still only middle management in the criminal pastry shop. He has obligations to his masters, chief of which is to help them recover a vast shipment of ecstasy pills that have gone missing somewhere...
...simply, he wants something more along the lines of Eddie Temple's library. Eddie's the cherry on top of the Layer Cake, a master criminal with interests in legitimate real estate. Played with casually silky menace by Michael Gambon, he has developed a taste for opera (The Damnation of Faust naturally comes up in his conversations) and for rare books. We don't know that he reads them, but, by golly, he has them--housed in a burnished, glowingly lighted library. You can practically feel the sweat of desire forming on our antihero's lip when he penetrates this...
...connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Finally someone has taken the thermos concept out of the lunch box and into the dining room, with style. Bodum's new double-walled drinking glasses ($12 to $20 a pair at www.bodum.com) feature two layers of heat-resistant glass. Your drink is suspended in the inner layer, with a pocket of air in between to insulate sensitive fingers from hot espresso or, alternatively, prevent warm hands from melting ice cubes in soft drinks. An added benefit: condensation is contained in the inner wall, eliminating...
...Finally someone has taken the thermos concept out of the lunch box and into the dining room, with style. Bodum's new double-walled drinking glasses ($12 to $20 a pair at www.bodum.com) feature two layers of heat-resistant glass. Your drink is suspended in the inner layer, with a pocket of air in between to insulate sensitive fingers from hot espresso or, alternatively, prevent warm hands from melting ice cubes in soft drinks. An added benefit: condensation is contained in the inner wall, eliminating the need for coasters...