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...SKEPTICAL EYE Longtime TIME Science writer (and professional skeptic) Leon Jaroff inaugurates "The Skeptical Eye," a weekly look at science and pseudoscience. This week Jaroff examines the case of a researcher who has received nearly half a million dollars to study whether praying for aids and cancer patients can help heal them. At time.com/columnist/jaroff...
...Anthony LaPaglia plays him in Lantana, police detective Leon Zat is as harsh and abrupt as his surname. He is several things: a tough, angry cop, impatient with a dismal caseload; a middle-aged man, jogging through his chest pains, trying to get back in shape; an unhappy husband glumly trying to find some magic in an affair that's all grim haste and guilty furtiveness...
...short, he's a very human being. And typical of this actor, not one crying out for sympathy. We may come to care for Leon Zat, but slowly, almost grudgingly. We may come to care for LaPaglia, too, a 42-year-old Aussie now residing in the U.S., but on a similar basis--respecting his craft without necessarily adoring the craftsman...
Bratt, 38, hits lovely, seductive notes in director Leon Ichaso's ragged symphony of self-destruction. His Pinero shouts savage poetry from rooftops, rages against the ravages of disease and grasps at respect even while reaching for his next fix. Bratt has had four seasons on TV's Law & Order, an impressive turn as a drug kingpin in Traffic and has been game to support Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality) and Madonna (The Next Best Thing). But virtually no one realized he had this kind of performance in him. "For the last couple of months, I've been getting...
Detective Leon Zat, wonderfully played by a gruff Anthony LaPaglia, suffers intermittent chest pains and more or less permanent heartache. He's rather grimly cheating on his wife, mostly because men of a certain age tend to do that. He can't quite control his anger and has become abusive with suspects. He's particularly hard on John Sommers (Geoffrey Rush), whose psychiatrist wife (Barbara Hershey) mysteriously disappeared on an Australian back road one night. He's convinced that this arrogant man must be a murderer...