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...would be, were this not the season in which the world of American entertainment became fascinated with Buddhism. Neither Seven Years nor Kundun is overtly about the faith. The first recounts the story of Pitt's character, Heinrich Harrer, a superstar mountain climber and Nazi poster boy who is humanized while tutoring the preteen Dalai Lama in Tibet in the 1940s and '50s. The second tells the remarkable tale of the Dalai Lama more or less through his own eyes, from his recognition as reincarnated Buddha of compassion at age two until his escape to India at 24. Each film...
...director Jean-Jacques Annaud does deprive the audience of emotional stimulation of any kind, whether from cinematography or character development, until Harrer reaches Tibet. In one tense mountain-climbing scene in the Himalayas (or "Himilias," as Pitt refers to them), we see no panorama and remarkably little scenery in frame. Annaud keeps only the climbers in shot, and instead of majestic mountainscapes, only the snow and gray, gravely rock for a backdrop...
...with a fiery emerald green. She seemed easily distracted by the activity around her as the band was tearing down, as if she wanted to involve herself in two things at once. A self-described "people person," she was cheerful and extroverted throughout the interview (perhaps it was the Mountain Dew and the menthols) despite the tremendous outpouring of energy her set required and an exhausting tour schedule. Deal needs eight hours of sleep to keep her voice in shape and related humorously that it went out at home in Dayton because her mother woke her up early for mother...
Because of time constraints, The Kelley Deal 6000 could not play an encore. Between cigarettes and sips of Mountain Dew, Deal chatted with the crowd, appreciating their enthusiasm. The abrupt ending was a little anticlimactic, but at 1:30 the crowd walked out of the smoky room invigorated by the performance...
What do they do as they traverse our nation's interstates? "Drink Mountain Dew and smoke...