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...nothing else, Robert Benton's film Twilight is an ode to a fading brand of screen legends. Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, an alcoholic former detective in Los Angeles dependent on his employers, retired actors Jack and Catherine Ames (Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon). Harry becomes involved in a murder investigation after Hackman sends him to deliver a package to a mysterious woman. The essential features of film noir are in place in Twilight, which dutifully follows nearly every single convention of the genre. The inconsistencies in the film could be forgivable if the film had any dramatic urgency. Fortunately...
...process?" A Genentech scientist nodded agreement. California Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative Tom Lantos smiled gamely. And Gore asked question after question: "Is this a process you patented? What software program do you use? Do you get stock options?" Soon he joined a roomful of scientists to deliver an ode to the job-creation benefits of the federal research-and-development tax credit...
...Classic Girl" gained a renewed pride and updated ode-like feel (even if it was serenaded to a sheer body-suited Amazonian goddess on a catwalk), with Navarro getting the lightly capering riffs just right. The dreamily pastoral "Summertime Rolls" responded particularly well to the limitless dynamics of the concert; Farrell tweaked nostalgic into near-wistful, letting that "me and my girl-friend" just hang...
...tries its best to mimic the Disney style. Here, it does astonishingly well, and sometimes even surpasses its predecessor. The musical numbers, in particular, are startlingly good. "Journey to the Past," the show-stopping solo for Anastasia, will linger in your head for days as will Rasputin's personal ode to evil...
Music for a Grecian Ode...