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...neck of the woods where...
...good hour into the movie, you suddenly realize that people are creeping from one closed space to the next, from the Christmastime police beatings in prison cells onward. Into such a world populated by officers who would just as soon as bury a broken bottle in your neck as arrest you, Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) enters, a fresh-scrubbed "golden boy" with an absolute commitment to good. Exley is a little uncomfortable with the corner-cutting approach of the police chief Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), who dispenses tips on life with a thin smile that promises something violently wrong...
Basically, barring a couple of dead-on newbies, the best of this year's festival are the oldies-but-goodies: the endless, playfully mean riffs of "No Neck Joe"; the pitiful, worst-nightmare explorations of the body's connective tissue in "Lloyd's Lunchbox"; and the masterpiece of comic timing, "Dirdy Birdy." These shorts endure and generate fresh laughs with every viewing just like any sturdy, well engineered joke or skit...
...with her husband David, designed the wedding gown. "It wasn't until she was walking up our narrow, winding stairs that I realized who it was. Then I was really, really nervous. But she made us feel at ease. I think she was wearing something with a frilly neck, a full skirt, and she was rather plump, quite shy and seemed to look out from under her bangs. The first time I met her, she needed a formal dress for an evening engagement with Prince Charles, so we went through the rails. We found a black dress that she looked...
Sane, well-balanced celebrities accept their fame as part of their working life, but also an irrelevance and an intrusion and a pain in the neck. It is true that people live more comfortably with fame when they are confident that it is something they have earned by their own merit and hard work over a period of time...