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...Cliffs Notes for that Laurence Sterne "classic" you have no intention of reading. Do rent it to see what happened to Brit humor after Monty Python. TV eminences Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon star in this postmodernist jape, which keeps interrupting the novel's tale to focus on the offscreen agitations of the cast. Since the Coogan-Brydon banter gave the film much of its brio, their very funny commentary on the DVD amounts to a second deconstruction of the entertaining shambles that is Shandy...
...Lohan as Streep’s angst-ridden daughter. The 19-year-old drama queen earned the respect of the veteran cast, in spite of recent negative press attention for her eating habits and partying.“I think it’s very hard to be her, offscreen, but I think it’s very wonderful to be her onscreen, because she is remarkably talented and alive on camera,” Streep notes. “She’s a natural,” Reilly follows. “And she’s been...
LAUREN BACALL, 81 Once Bogie's partner on- and offscreen, she continues her prizewinning acting. "I intend to keep working until I drop...
...understand what he was creating? Of course. "I was in a certain arena artistically that no one else had ever been in before, ever," he tells the documentary's offscreen interviewer. "Although I might have been wrong about that." No, that's about right. The musical exploration went according to his plan. What he hadn't expected was the stardom. He says of his first idol, the folk poet Woody Guthrie, "You could listen to his songs and actually learn how to live." Dylan's fans found the same home truths in his work...
...Scott and his screenwriters poured so much intelligence, such vigorous picturizing of military assaults and gladiatorial entertainments that this dormant genre was reborn. The fatal "games" Maximus fights in the Colosseum might be a modern extreme sport or a Vin Diesel melodrama reimagined as art. Superb acting certainly helps. Offscreen, Crowe may seem a lout; onscreen, he radiates the maturity of a strong, scarred man--a star suitable for epics past and epics to come. --By Richard Corliss