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Lists that segment people into clearly-defined categories are particularly valuable to direct marketers, which can tailor their sales pitch to a particular demographic and therefore increase the likelihood of making a sale...
...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...
...trailer for The Cell is beautiful and brilliant'a startlingly perfect mixture of pictures and pitch. But a trailer only runs a couple minutes, and director Tarsem Singh finds he has a lot more to deal with when he has to produce a coherent piece 60 times as long. The problem with The Cell is that it gets so hung up on its little details and visual tricks that it loses sight of the bigger picture - the villain's motivations, the detective's emotions, logic, etc. And sure, we can applaud Singh all we want for his audacity, but what...
...wish the movie were more than just a pitiful 90 minutes and the ending too blatantly tries to set up future sequels, I'll take what I can get when it comes to this genre. Finally, something must be said of Aussie newcomer Hugh Jackman, who was so utterly pitch-perfect as legendary comics icon Wolverine that he alone made me feel like I was actually watching the comic book, rather than some hackneyed interpretation...
...longing for a life away from the streets of Chicago. Her scenes with Banner are particularly touching and bring out the sensitive qualities of the actors. Unfortunately, the interaction between Lang and lawyers Gross (Will MacDonald) and Oberman (Ken Flott), while growing in intensity, never quite reaches the feverish pitch that would stir and shock the audience. The anger, the despair, the message - they all hit. But not quite hard enough...