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...Their mandatory sex scene is shot in tiger stripes of light and shadow, as if it were an R-rated outtake from the Nature series. The four gorgeous leads aren't playing characters here; they are making erotic fashion statements. And Phil Joanou's direction is mannered to the max. Or, rather, to the min; the film is two hours of flexing jaws and sultry glances. Before delivering a line of dialogue, everybody takes a nap. All of which is about as arousing as watching a tortoise sun itself...
...sights and sounds of Wenders' year 2000 will stay will you long after you leave the theater, and the cast's performance, including cameo appearances by Max Von Sydow and Jeanne Moreau, is memorable. Until the End of the World is a long ride, but it's well worth the trip...
...most conspicuous resistance to the story came from the New York Times, which relegated it to short shrift on back pages even after 60 Minutes. Says executive editor Max Frankel: "We had been meeting over the months on the issue of privacy, with long discussions on whether we are in the business of covering the sex lives of candidates and about how far we go in other privacy matters." He denies being affected by the outcry over an investigative profile last year of Patricia Bowman, the woman who alleged that she was raped by William Kennedy Smith...
...comer. This season he bagged a World Cup downhill victory at Val d'Isere, the first world-class win by an American male since Bill Johnson struck Olympic gold in 1984. Kitt was serving notice that he had arrived -- just in time, if all goes according to plan, to max out next week on the slopes near Val d'Isere for an Olympic medal. (The A in AJ stands for Alva, which the racer despises; the J signifies nothing but goes well with A.) After skiing on the new Olympic downhill run last month at Val d'Isere, Kitt complained...
...Flag (1954), marked the transition of American art from the Abstract Expressionism of the '40s and '50s to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His abstract canvases of the late 1960s, replete with real brooms, rulers and kitchen utensils, recall the iconography of Surrealists like Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst...