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...media is like a big monster,” she says. “Yeah, it can be disappointing, but that just means you have to make more information happen that’s in some way empowering...
...will. And here's something else to talk about: Nicholson's new movie, Something's Gotta Give, is a chick flick about as unapologetic as they come. Can Jack, the unrepentant seducer, the legendary monster of appetites, the roguish charmer, turn himself into the king of hearts? Or put another way, would you buy from this man an unblushing, sentimental, picnics-on-the-beach romantic comedy about the joys of committed love...
...multiple roles, Streep morphs effortlessly from ancient Orthodox rabbi to radical Jewish mom Rosenberg to Joe Pitt's mother Hannah. Only occasionally does Pacino slip into his scenery-chewing hooah mode with the eloquently cynical Cohn. And Thompson's angel is no cherub but a winged Old Testament monster of sexual heat and arrogance who proclaims, "My wrath is as fearsome as my countenance is splendid...
Cross the wires of the Burton myths, as Hollywood studios often do, and--it's alive!--you get Frankenstein's multiplex monster, a developmentally arrested auteur capable of turning out an almost consistently profitable brand of kooky horror. Naturally, Burton loathes these myths. "You get pigeonholed very easily in Hollywood," he says, "even if you do something they were leery of to begin with. I try not to think about it, but, oh, it kind of drives me out of my mind...
...across the wood floor and into his study, where he flops with charming gracelessness onto a red velvet couch. He is as brooding as a Muppet. "People really know me know that I'm not dark at all," he says. "I mean, at all. Like, yeah, I like monster movies, but it's cathartic. I don't even ... I don't know where ... I don't know...