Word: plot
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...care lavished on re-creating the monster, the new plot is somewhat less revolutionary. As in 1954, Godzilla is the spawn of nuclear tests in the Pacific, and this time he makes his way quickly to New York City. Matthew Broderick plays an American scientist, Dr. Nick Tatopoulos (a nod to the new creator); Jean Reno is a mysterious agent for the French; Maria Pitillo is a newscaster wannabe; and Hank Azaria is a TV cameraman. Together they battle not just Godzilla but a teeming snake pit of little Godzillas. Though referred to as "he," the monster belongs to transgender...
Stone takes his time putting all the elements of an enormously complicated plot into place. Much religious arcana are offered: "How the Kabbalistic doctrine of ayin, the unknowable element in which the Infinite exists, had its Hindu cognate in the concept Nishkala Shiva, the remote absolute." Reading the first half of Damascus Gate can, at such moments, feel like a long uphill trek...
Frank Sinatra's gardenia-laden casket was carried into Beverly Hills' Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church on Tuesday night for the vigil in advance of his funeral mass, scheduled for Wednesday, and burial later in a family plot near Palm Springs. The interment site at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City is where his mother, Natalie "Dolly" Sinatra, and father, Anthony Martin Sinatra, are buried. Sinatra was 82 when he died Thursday of heart failure...
...with Clockers, his 1992 novel about the drug trade in a worn-down wasteland of urban New Jersey, Richard Price creates in his new novel, Freedomland (Broadway Books; 546 pages; $25), a thriller in which plot grows inevitably from place, and place seems utterly real. The most powerful impression a reader feels in these two novels is the sense, in a scene set in a chaotic emergency room or in the junk-filled scrubland between a black housing project and a shabby white neighborhood, that yes, this is what such a backwater would look like, sound like, smell like...
...Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964). These two basically cover the "Rat Pack" phenomenon. "Ocean's Eleven" gets an edge for a semblance of plot and a winning turn by Cesar Romero as kingpin Duke Santos. "Robin" has some good musical numbers. Both are ultimately dragged down by too many flat spaces and an over-reliance on Pack charm to fill them...