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...ANTONIO MIRANDA...
...alternate world where Hitler has won World War II, an SS officer (Rutger Hauer) and an American reporter (Miranda Richardson) stumble on the Nazis' terrible secret, in this suspenseful, well-paced adaptation of Robert Harris' best seller...
...courageous ones are Miranda Richardson, as an American reporter sucked into the mystery, and Rutger Hauer, as an SS officer who can't let a tough case drop. Hauer's Aryan good looks have settled nicely into middle age; he has both more solidity and more sensitivity now. The scenes between him and his young son are as touching and chilling as anything on TV all year. The film's melodramatic finish is more upbeat than the novel's, but nearly every moment is gripping, intelligent, uncompromising. It took a Nazi victory, alas, to create the first movie about...
...look like he could do that much, if you know what we mean. Then there's that woman trying to balance a bowl of fruit on her head while singing "Chiquita Banana" to a crowd of onlookers. Oh, oops, that's not a Harvard student. It's Carmen Miranda come back from the dead...
...Finding the Center. Naipaul called that piece of writing "Prologue to an Autobiography." The new work is an analogue to that and other earlier books. As in A Way in the World, the nameless narrator of The Enigma of Arrival might as well be called V.S. Naipaul. Raleigh and Miranda were prominent in The Loss of El Dorado; they reappear here in chapters that Naipaul says grew out of ideas for dramas...