Word: mins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...godfather is coy about Gangstergate and his own political connections, although he says he has received requests to "help out" in this year's presidential race. Politicians, he says with disgust, "use you and then get rid of you." Mobster Ahn Sang Min says he, too, has been approached by politicians seeking to fix the December election. Ahn, more menacing than dapper in olive sports jacket, black turtleneck and white slip-ons, is best known for ordering three murders?the last one while in prison. (He says he's now counseling young people.) Gangstergate? "They can't touch...
...climbs up to stand on Yen's shoulders; finally they pole-vault to safety as Yam falls below to be impaled and roasted. (Rule No. 1: at the end of a Yuen movie, nearly anyone is likely to catch on fire.) Piling impossible climax on incredible crescendo, the 5-min. scene plays like a war of the titans in a child's playground of Hell...
TIME WARP You may think a doctor's visit lasts about as long as it takes to say "co-payment," but a new study finds that the length of visits has actually gone up two minutes since 1989, to 18.3 min. today. Why? Patients know more these days, so they're more likely to chew up time asking questions. Moreover, with managed care, there's pressure on docs to compete for business--and spending time with patients is one way to win them over...
...will add 10 min. to Friends...
...MIGHT NOT Art films today are often slow films, and if Yi Yi's pulse were any slower it would merit not a review but an autopsy. At 2 hr. 53 min., it contains many scenes of silent staring into the middle distance--human disasters made statuesque and static...