Word: pitch-perfect
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...GIVE YOUR GIFT Having hot musicians (Sheryl Crow, Macy Gray, Shaggy) sing about giving of yourself--so you'll give your business to the Gap--would be dicey any year, much less after Sept. 11. Yet once again, the retailer's holiday ads were culturally pitch-perfect. On a stark set, the singers, covering Supertramp's plangent Give a Little Bit, gave a little uplift to a Christmas season that needed...
...bastard child, The Godfather trilogy’s cultural import cannot be overstated. With Nino Rota’s haunting score, Coppola’s deft storytelling, Gordon Willis’ exquisite cinematography and any number of superlative cast performances, the first two films are as close to pitch-perfect filmmaking as any ensemble has ever attempted. However, woe betide the one who actually decides to play the DVD to Part III. If you do, the universe will collapse into a pinpoint of matter so dense that from it no light will escape. The third installment of the Corleone crime...
...Franzen is busy sketching out the big picture details of American life through the Lamberts’ various misadventures. If a life is lived in the details, then Franzen’s grasp of the Lamberts’ inner and superficial lives is fabulous. He gives us striking and pitch-perfect accounts of the crises and triumphs and weird lines of internal reasoning exhibited by his characters, who are involved in episodes such as a biotech IPO, a fraudulent investment scheme in a Baltic nation, an affair with both the boss and the boss’s spouse, a rather...
...typical TV movie might have shown the match reverently as an Important Social Moment. But Anderson--whose Cheerleader was a pitch-perfect rendering of a modern tabloid circus--also captures the made-for-TV ridiculousness of its buildup, from Riggs' shilling for Sugar Daddy caramel pops to the opponents' theatrical, Muhammad Ali-esque bouts of insult and braggadocio. For these outsize personalities, the sideshow was the show. "Billie has often spoken of tennis as entertainment as well as a sport," says Holly Hunter, who plays King and starred in Cheerleader. "That aspect of the story was really well served...
...will never see it. At least, not exactly as Star meant you to. For the original pilot was also unsparing of 90210 star Tori Spelling, Aaron's daughter. Her pitch-perfect analogue is Marcy Sternfeld (Lindsay Sloane), a dramatically challenged actress who's had career help from various surgical upgrades and a big-shot "uncle" in the TV biz. The pilot wounded Tori's dad--who just happens to produce the WB's top-rated series, 7th Heaven--and the network sent Star back to the drawing board to make nice...