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Don’t be surprised if you feel like you’ve heard some of the patter and pop-culture references of “Slevin” before. Director Paul McGuigan and writer Jason Smilovic owe the larger part of their souls to Guy Ritchie (for flashback sequences with crazy lens shading), John Woo (for slow-motion fight scenes), and Quentin Tarantino (for the entire script and plot...
...Vice President's hunting accident occasioned a familiar explosion of public inanity. We seem to have a primal need for these circuses; they are the postmodern equivalent of scapegoat sacrifice. There was the embarrassing, self-righteous reportorial melee in the White House pressroom. There was the predictable patter of late-night comedians, although the jokes didn't seem quite so funny this time; a man had been shot. There were the cable-news shouting sprees, most of which had to do with the public relations process-Had Cheney erred in not informing the press immediately?-rather than the substance...
...some of what goes on in New York is just patter. Were any of these guys just amazed that you said yes to their advances...
...Alicia Keys/Stevie Wonder Impromptu Performance After some truly awful patter-"It?s the biggest night of the world!" Stevie announced-Wonder and fellow presenter Alicia Keys settled down and delivered a terrific improvised a cappela performance of Higher Ground dedicated to Coretta Scott King...
...right, occasionally, to revisit currently disused genres. There can sometimes be something comforting in the old stylizations. But to make something like Firewall good, you have to make it at least a little bit new--or add more than an unending patter of rain and techno-talk...