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With all the necessary trappings, "Romeo is Bleeding" should be quintessential film noir. It is instead a dark and muddled mess with little style and even less interest. Borrowing heavily from past Film noir in everything from plot to music to costuming, director Peter Medak ("Salome", "The Krays") crosses the line from paying homage to being simply unoriginal...
...question from an audience member about his "non-traditional media image," Sharpton said that he is often misrepresented. "The picture of me in a jogging suit with a medallion was created by the media. I never wore jogging suits, other than to jail--because I didn't want to mess up any of my [formal] suits...
...production is not the most nuanced of the three but is surely the funniest -- and the most ambisexual. British director David Jones, a longtime collaborator with Pinter, does not mess with the text, but he does point up homosexual undertones, overtones and just plain tones in the relationships among the two old men and two younger ones who purport to be servants but act like thugs. As usual with Pinter, sexual attraction manifests itself in smidgens of affection and buckets of scorn, and the goal of Eros is the adolescent urge to have something to brag about. The sexual linkages...
Chan shies away from Ouija boards, however. "Ithink they're dangerous," she said. "You let aspirit come into contact with you, and it couldget inside and mess you up." Chan, who is Chinese,added, "My culture is filled with ghost stories...
...proposing a steady-state approach, which means I reserve the right to mess around on the margins by raising or lowering smaller taxes," Barrett says. "But I'll maintain a steady-as-you-go approach with regard to the income and sales...