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...reasons best known to the slightly desperate screenwriters (John Heffernan and Sebastian Gutierrez), it is a master criminal who rounds up every known type of deadly snake from the four corners of the world, introduces them into the cargo hold and hots them up with pheremones (the creatures are passive, we are told, except when they have sex on their very tiny minds). I especially liked the gigantic boa constrictor, which is used to grisly comic effect a couple of times in the course of the movie. But never mind - each of you will have your special favorites among...
...Anglo-European accents. But even those may be devices of misdirection, little traps set by Neil Burger, the writer-director. It's not how Burger sets the stage; it's what he puts on it. Soon Norton slips into Eisenheim's skin and, with the aid of real-life master magicians Ricky Jay and Michael Weber, makes the enterprise soar--or, at any rate, levitate...
...Schrager is also expanding his portfolio into urban planning. Adjacent to the Gramercy is a 23-unit John Pawson--designed condominium, evidence of Schrager's master plan to combine hotels with full-time residential properties--at $5 million to $10 million apiece. He is about to announce a 10,000-unit residential, retail and hotel complex in Las Vegas, inspired by the Tivoli Gardens, Central Park and a Tuscan town square. In a softening housing market, the Las Vegas project will be a stern test of Schrager's vision. "Everything Ian does has levels of influence," says Ross Klein, president...
Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence. I would go to my attic; I'd record Martin Short Sings Songs of Loves Ago. I was 14. My mother, who was the concert master of the [Hamilton, Ont.] symphony, would say, "beautifully sung, a little flat here ..." Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized...
...Other than the few Hizballah men who dart between the rubble, the only other signs of life are the packs of scrawny dogs who lope down the street and a pair of thin horses standing forlornly in the shade of a gas station waiting patiently, it seems, for a master who may never return...