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...frustrating sport simply irks some players, including the intense Woods. "It's soooo programmed," says another player. "It's a strategy, but you know what? It's a damned good strategy because it's working." When asked about Mickelson's image, golf Hall of Famer and NBC analyst Johnny Miller breaks into a show tune. "Hah-lly-wood," he sings. "It's all Hollywood, man. Phil's a smart guy like that." Mickelson has no answer to accusations of excess gregariousness: "I don't really have anything to say. I really don't know what...
...Miller, a former U.S. and British Open champ, thinks this could be the best Masters in years. "The friction is good for the game," he says. "Now if they would just say, 'I'm better than that guy. I'm going to win today,' that would be even better." C'mon, guys, a little trash talk in golf? Doubtful at hallowed Augusta. But we'll be watching just in case...
...tempting to speculate, especially since writer-director Rebecca Miller is so quick to deflect the subject, that Jack could embody some aspect of her father Arthur. Tempting but fruitless, since the real kinship is with the work of another playwright, dead nearly 500 years. Jack is a blend of Prospero, lord of his fantasy island, and Lear, the mad king with a loving daughter. Rose is his Miranda, his Cordelia...
...overlapping stories, its code of honor among thugs, even a grisly-comic car ride with a corpse. Aptly, that scene was "guest-directed" by Quentin Tarantino. It's just one rule that Sin City flouts. The film has no script credit, and Rodriguez resigned from the Directors Guild so Miller could co-direct. But the film follows one rule explicitly: it is the comic book. Same dialogue, points of view, settings, same black-and-white look dabbed with splashes of blood--except the movie moves and makes noise. Lots of noise; beautiful moves...
...cool thing about this digital scare-scape is how fidelity to Miller's vision liberated Rodriguez and the cast. Everyone has a great time playing it hard and fast. For all its astronomical body count, Sin City is brazenly, thrillingly alive. --By Richard Corliss