Word: mistakenness
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...networks have mistaken The West Wing's popularity for an interest in how our government works. In addition to three CIA dramas now on air, this season will get a second Supreme Court show in March, when Sally Field's The Court comes to ABC. First Monday tries really hard to copy The West Wing, down to the walk-and-talk scenes, but it lacks the complexity of even that show's flat Sept. 11-themed episode. It's a waste of a great cast, including the always welcome Garner, the always reliable Charles Durning and Joe Mantegna (House...
...that ultimate Frank Capra movie had never been made? We fear Hollywood would have been stuck for a what-if plot for its year-end inspirationals. Michael Sloane's script butters the Capra-corn with another '40s touchstone: Preston Sturges' Hail the Conquering Hero, about a 4-F fellow mistaken as a war hero when he returns home. Here the unwilling impostor is a screenwriter (Carrey) who escapes Hollywood when he's marked for blacklisting and ends up an amnesiac in a town claiming him as its own. Suddenly he's got a father (Landau), a girlfriend (Holden...
...Stephen King prison novels, crowd-pleasing director Frank Darabont once again enters the world of the uplifting. The Majestic tells the story of Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey), a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter who loses his memory in a car accident. Appleton finds himself in a small California town, and is mistaken for the lost son of Harry Trimble (Martin Landau). Here he joins the task of revamping an old movie theatre, The Majestic, along with rediscovering himself, finding true love and other such escapades, such as evading the Communist hunters who eventually track him down. Darabont is the classic Hollywood emotional...
...recognizable as good old-fashioned rock-sensibility, despite the otherworldly wailings of whatever that new-fangled spooky sounding instrument Jonny Greenwood is playing these days. The song could never be straight-up however, and Thom Yorke’s distorted wailings and pantings ensure that it will not be mistaken for such. In fact, it is Yorke’s manic, disconcerting energy that carries much of the album, and gives the two slower songs their subtle bite when he lets his ridiculously, stunningly beautiful voice soar...
...could not be sure the effort to get bin Laden would succeed, his comments were splashed all over the world's press. Rumsfeld rushed to contain the damage, later saying at a Pentagon briefing "we hope and we expect to get him." Still, if Donald Rumsfeld can be mistaken for a defeatist, the Bush administration has its work cut out in preparing Americans for a protracted conflict...