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...MARTIN MICHAELIS Amherst...
This is the stuff of pulp fiction; that's how the '60s novel and film The Carpetbaggers played it. Martin Scorsese and screenwriter John Logan take a statelier approach, retelling two decades of Hughes' life in chronological order and trying to explain his degeneration with an eerily erotic scene of his mother washing the boy Howard and warning him of the dangers of pestilence. This penny-Freud thesis can't support the film's nearly three ambling hours. We're happy to take the trip with Hughes but don't know how he reached Destination Crazy Hermit...
...release, DiCaprio has starred in four films. The first, The Beach, was a mess. The others--Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can and now The Aviator, a Howard Hughes biography out nationwide Dec. 25--are big-budget period pieces directed by either Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese, in which DiCaprio plays a historically inspired, convention-bucking protagonist. These are serious gigs--De Niro-when-he-was-young-and-good gigs. DiCaprio has done three of them in four years--and nothing else. Scorsese, who was recruited by DiCaprio to direct The Aviator, believes that...
There’s a new painting up in the modern and contemporary gallery of the Fogg. Or perhaps “painting” is too strong a word. The 2001 work, Dorian Gray by the American artist Martin Kline, at first glance looks remarkably like a gigantic black mud splat. Kline used encaustic, a pasty wax-based paint, to make this work, and the result is a highly textured oval mound of pigment, roughly the shape and convexity of a shield, that juts forward close to three inches from the center of the board. The board itself...
Merry Christmas, moviegoers! What does Hollywood have in store for you this wintry holiday season? Paris Hilton with clothes? Lindsey Lohan tying up loose ends with dear old dad in rehab? Creepy men with masks stalking around the opera house? Super-mega-ultra-epic biopics directed by Martin Scorcese? Nope. Sorry. You’ll be too busy buying late presents for the family you’ve neglected to catch a flick any time before New Year’s. What to buy? DVDs, of course...