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...nothing more than an hour's footage of a really handsome, really famous footballer fast asleep. And that's enough for those of us in Room 41. Our thoughts are full of the beauty of Beckham, and the creamy blue light bathing his torso. His golden shoulder may nod to the classical statues of the gods, but we mortal women gaze, moonfaced, at the soft flicker of his eyelashes. He licks his lips and scrabbles at the crucifix around his neck, he moves his hand and the row of bands and bracelets around his wrist shuffle like waiting footmen - nothing...
...designers gave a nod to pimp fashion, an archetype of blaxploitation, in a sequence with bare-chested men reveling in the adulation of mini-skirted vixens. The segment’s tone was slightly marred by the off-putting notion that a production conscientiously pushing for racial diversity did little to challenge the film industry’s manipulative portrayal of African-Americans in the 1960s...
...sweeping doses of strings and bells. “It’s a lot rockier,” Woodward said about the album in concert. “It would be neat, someday, to do an orchestral type thing, think guys?” The other band members nod in approval...
Cavini allows herself to play with the tones to keep Game from drifting into familiarity. A murder scene on a train—which seems set up as a nod to the first Highsmith adaptation, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 Strangers on a Train—is played as screwball comedy in the finest His Girl Friday tradition, and I began to forget about the brutality of the game and enjoy the antics. I was as caught up in the moment as Jonathon, which makes his subsequent fear all the more palpable. And then Cavini’s game...
...Islamic terrorism win the Spanish election? If you support the Iraq war and don't turn apoplectic when hearing the word Bush, you will nod vigorously and reach for your Spanish dictionary to look up appeasement. But if you hate both the war and the Bushies, you will argue thus: "A vast majority of Spaniards have always opposed their country's entanglement in Iraq. The vote merely expressed the will of the people." But this is a moot debate. Look at the issue from the terrorists' perspective. Having timed the bloodbath for the election, they scored beyond their wildest expectations...