Word: mephistophelian
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...theater on upper Broadway in New York City. The Sunday-morning faithful--a few hundred strong--have come to hear the Journey's laid-back pastor, Nelson Searcy, give them the word. The word made film. Searcy, 32, who in jeans and a goatee looks like a way less Mephistophelian Charlie Sheen, is about to deliver the last of the church's eight-part God on Film series. The topic? "Catwoman: Discovering My True Identity...
...know, is supposed to be objective, but global warming is one of those scientific issues that have been hopelessly mired in politics for years, and the movie's director, Roland Emmerich, can't resist some playful partisan point scoring. He pairs a weak-willed but telegenic President with a Mephistophelian, scientifically ignorant Veep, played by an obvious Dick Cheney look-alike. After the storm hits, tens of thousands of American refugees flee south--whereupon Mexico promptly closes its borders, leaving the hapless, desperate gringos to wade in droves across the Rio Grande...
Pause here for a brief head swivel. Jack Nicholson in an Adam Sandler comedy? That's right. Nicholson is here to bring a touch of Mephistophelian class to the standard Sandler paranoid-fantasy recipe. Dr. Buddy moves into Dave's apartment and bed, dates his girlfriend and--all right, this is inspired--forces Dave to sing I Feel Pretty while parked on a city bridge at rush hour...
...book offers up strong opinions about the key players, some expected (book agent Lucianne Goldberg is Mephistophelian), some not (much lampooned Lewinsky lawyer William Ginsburg didn't do too badly). But as a former prosecutor, Toobin reserves his greatest scorn for Kenneth Starr, whom he portrays as unqualified, unprincipled, politically biased and lacking in common sense. Toobin's thesis is that the real vast conspiracy wasn't the right-wing one Hillary famously charged was behind the scandal, but a more subtle attempt by the legal system to circumvent the political process through an "after the fact election." That...