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Tragically, of course, we now know all the astronauts’ names: Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Rick Husband, William McCool and Ilan Ramon. But even as we commemorate their sacrifice, we are not so sure why they died...
...woman known only as Jewel (a stunning Liv Tyler) is capable of being all things to all men. Luckily, only three of them are significantly present in One Night at McCool's. If she had had any more boys to toy with, this movie might have turned into a sobering study in multiple-personality disorder. Instead, it remains a sort of low-rent Rashomon that is the smartest, funniest, most cleverly structured comedy of the year...
...Jewel; Dehling to his brother (Richard Jenkins), who is a priest; Carl to a psychiatrist (Reba McEntire)--wow, this is a well-cast movie. But none of them can do much more than offer sympathy for the poor dopes' entrapments. For what is possibly the funniest thing about McCool's is how easily the men fall into Jewel's clutches...
There is, possibly, a moral here--something about how sexual and material fetishism renders people crazy with desire. But let's not go there. One Night at McCool's is, finally, quite a brilliant exercise in style. First-time director Harald Zwart, a Norwegian music-video guy, has a marvelously cool eye for the slightly surreal aspects of American bad taste. Lamps that light when you clap your hands, the chrome and leather modernism of an arriviste's pad--they are the objective correlatives of his characters' endless seducibility, their inability to imagine the stupid consequences of ill-considered passion...
VERMONT: Benton 4-15 2-4 10; Falkenbush 1-5 0-23; Grey 0-1 0-0 0; McDonough 3-6 2-5 11; Conlon 1-3 0-2 2; Reed 2-5 0-0 5; Benoit 0-1 1-2 1; Roberson 4-15 8-10 18; McCool 3-9 0-0 8; Madic 1-2 0-0 2; Cieplicki 1-5 2-2 4; Nunnery 0-1 0-0 0. Totals...