Word: morphing
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...writes--into movies and also, as Disney's The Lion King demonstrates, to turn highly promoted films into money-spinning plays. Lloyd Webber's new real estate includes the London Palladium and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, famous large venues ideal for launching plays with transatlantic appeal that could morph into movies or television. Nor is Lloyd Webber's empire building likely to stop here. He and his partners are looking to buy up other major theaters in Europe and the U.S. In a few years they hope to take their company public and really cash...
...doesn't remain secret. Before heading for the island, Richard had left a map with some other Americans. Now they are trying to enter, and it is his duty to keep them away and get the map. It is also time for a semi-idyllic Beach Party to morph into Apocalypse Now. Richard descends, or rather soars, into savagery. This handsomely made film--as attentive to Nature's predatory beauty as any film since Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line--goes a bit nuts, along with him. It sheds plausibility like a snakeskin, even as it accrues a needless...
Unlike Bill Bradley, I'm not prepared to call the man dishonest or morph him into Nixon. But at times, when Gore descends to the politics he disdains, he can't find the level beneath which he will not sink. At the 1996 convention he described how he sat at the deathbed of his younger sister in 1984 as she succumbed to the ravages of lung cancer, and how he vowed to fight tobacco until he drew "his last breath." Problem with that was he had made a 1988 speech to North Carolina farmers in which he extolled the joys...