Word: monkeyed
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David O Russell, after the light Oedipal drama of Spanking the Monkey and the impeccably funny Flirting with Disaster, directs Three Kings with the acute satirical eye that made his earlier films so successful. The compassion that made Flirting with Disaster so much less cruel a comedy than, say, There's Something About Mary allows him to expound on and reveal the hypocrisy, prejudices and petty acts of violence of the American soldiers in Iraq without flattening his characters into types or making his script implausible. There are ample comedic moments: ass jokes, an exploding cow, the presence of Marky...
...intention of demonstrating any range over his career, but that's fine with me as long as he continues to find intriguing costars like Rene Russo to play off of. Russo is one of Hollywood's best kept secrets. Almost every movie she's in (save that monkey mess Buddy) is a bonafide hit. But Russo tends to hide her beauty (even though, ironically enough, she once was a supermodel) by taking goofy roles--she's usually a clumsy, awkward underdog. In Thomas Crown, she leads with her sexuality, and the chemistry she ignites with Brosnan is beyond electric...
...WHERE'S THE MONKEY...
...forbiddingly avant-garde German talk-show host Dieter that he played on SNL. Of course, Myers will have some backup. Reportedly, one version of the script for Sprockets had a role for Baywatch mastermind David Hasselhoff as a villain who, on tour in Germany, kidnaps Dieter's monkey...
Just before the holiday weekend, HMOs threw a monkey wrench into the already convoluted politics of Medicare. The trade association for the managed care industry announced that HMOs would be increasing premiums or cutting benefits for most of the 6 million Medicare patients enrolled in their programs next year. Worse, some 250,000 Medicare patients would be dropped from HMO rolls altogether. The reason: The federal reimbursements for taking on Medicare patients are insufficient, said the industry. Medicare officials disagreed, but they limited their immediate public reaction to that of a muted ?disappointment? over a development that could seriously complicate...