Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas season fast approaches, dot.coms flush with cash from their stock-market offerings, are pumping money into old media and stretching the creative limits of Madison Avenue. "If you don't gain market share now, you're never going to get it," says analyst Henry Blodgett of Merrill Lynch. By the end of this year, e-commerce companies will shell out $2.5 billion on traditional advertising, according to PaineWebber. That may be just a fraction of the $80 billion U.S. ad market, but it's four times what Net firms spent in 1998. For the moment, dot.coms are actually spending...
Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), hero of David Lynch's The Straight Story, brings out the best in people--by talking or listening to them or just by the example of his tortoise-like quest. He is driving his John Deere lawnmower 350 miles to see his estranged brother. Alvin turns out to be your basic Lynch hero: a Kyle Maclachlan type, as average as apple pie, who follows his obsessions to heaven or hell. The supporting cast is normal too--and thus vastly weird, because Lynch presents them, as he did the sickos of Blue Velvet, without comment or condescension...
...perhaps this is one reason for Lynch's initial apprehension. Every day and all over the world, the lost are found; those who were separate become joined; the estranged are reunited. This is a universal good--the stuff from which our favorite movies are made. Of course, it's also a potential clich in the making. Some amount of significance, separate from the allure of universality, must exist to merit the making of a new film. Still, Lynch sticks to his tried and true methods in The Straight Story. Again, Lynch collaborates with composer Angelo Baladamenti to create a score...
...most impressive aspect of Lynch's adaptation is the absence of any canonizing or aggrandizing tendencies. Although both David Lynch and Freddie Francis, the director of photographer, pay homage to Straight's perseverance, The Straight Story is by no means a documentary. The wheels on Straight's lawnmower blend with the turning of tractor wheels. Bicyclists, cars, trucks whiz right by. Never for a moment are you made to forget that Straight is riding a 1966 John Deere. And for those of us willing to trot along at five miles-per-hour, the story is unexpectedly rewarding...
...time, not to mention all time.Taken all in all, Body Shots is a mismatched patchwork in that it can't figure out what it wants to be. It is at times, a shock-fest where there are enough bodily functions abound to delight even the most ardent of David Lynch fans--characters spitting up blood, urinating on closed toilets, puking and a rape all occur in the first fifteen minutes. At others, it attempts to be the defining film concerning love at the end of the millennium (cringe). In the inimitable style of a Calvin Klein commercial, actors speak directly...