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...gang dressed as Elvis impersonators robs a Las Vegas casino, then falls out. Kevin Costner is the dangerously deranged leader. Kurt Russell is the guy whose niceness develops under the impress of bloody, quick-cut, morally weightless mayhem. The movie means to be chic and hip, a compendium of all the latest visual mannerisms. Mostly it demonstrates how quickly they deteriorate into distancing cliches. Courteney Cox is good as a sexy, hard-pressed single mom, but she alone can't redeem the prevailing stupidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 3000 Miles To graceland | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Arafat was clearly apprehensive about inflaming the streets. Three days before the intifadeh, he warned Barak personally that he would not be able to prevent the mayhem if Sharon went ahead with his visit to the Haram. "Please stop Sharon," Arafat pleaded during a dinner, according to an aide who was present. He instructed his chief negotiator, Saeb Erakat, to bring it up with Israeli negotiators and U.S. mediator Dennis Ross the next day. Says Erakat: "I told Dennis, 'This is our worst nightmare, for you, for us and for Barak. Do something about it.' He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting For History To Happen | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...think Hollywood has exhausted the varieties of maximum mayhem; Kitano proves that the industry simply needed some fresh blood from Japan. Among the innovations: two ritual finger-cuttings, another chopsticks assault (this time up a fellow's nostrils) and, on a warehouse floor, nine fresh corpses arranged in the Japanese ideogram for death. Western audiences will learn subtle ethnic differences among the criminal classes, such as that the Japanese are more likely than the Americans to disembowel themselves in front of a rival. Kitano's direction is lively and loud enough, while his acting stays in the usual living-dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unbeaten | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...Olsen twins video signing at Suan Phung Blockbuster b) Hunger & fatigue c) Out of smokes d) Felt two years of mayhem enough to impress colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jan. 29, 2001 | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...Miami has to wait for another year to elicit Super Bowl mayhem. This...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Tampa's Super Distractions | 1/23/2001 | See Source »

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