Word: lolita
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...LOLITA...
...Elissa Hart; OH Lolita Lopez...
...Mike Myers' droll, brave impersonation, Rubell is a starstruck lout, a user-abuser, seductively snaky, cheerily malevolent; he could be Lolita's Clare Quilty without the gaudy wordplay. It'd be fun to see a movie about this Rubell. Alas, 54 focuses on the kids who worked for him: Shane the blond busboy (Ryan Phillippe), Anita the coat checker (Salma Hayek) and other cutie losers. The film tries to toss Saturday Night Fever's bridge-and-tunnel dreamers into the '70s' hottest disco. But for that to work, you need verve, edge and Travolta. All those are absent here...
...Lolita has finally landed. This weekend Showtime, trying to carve out a niche for itself as the edgy cable channel, will show the movie that no studio wanted to distribute. One of the best reasons to watch--apart from the alluring glimpses of the retainer that DOMINIQUE SWAIN's Lolita wears--is to see JEREMY IRONS do his favorite "I'm in love with the wrong person" act. He has loved so many of the wrong people in his films, he could be a regular guest on Jerry Springer. A glimpse at his past film amours...
...reason why we missed Caroline's mother's visit to the city the first time around, thank you. So the cable channels, aware of the networks' prehistoric insistence on shutting down for the summer, use these months for their hype: HBO's Sex and the City (now), Showtime's Lolita (Aug. 2), the Discovery Channel's Shark Week (Aug. 9-16) and the Learning Channel's latest swimsuit documentary, Beauty and the Beach (July 11). The best viewing is hiding on obscure cable channels. Finding them can require not only keen summer-surfing skills but sometimes a DirecTV satellite...