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...Lady from the Sea" has a plot that's high Harlequin: a dark and stormy night, a chronically sensitive young wife aching for a strong rogue to free her from the cage of marital propriety - Nunn brought his patented clarity of emotional line within a vigorous visualization. And Richardson virtually channeled her mom: she had all the intensity, and nearly the magic, of Vanessa Redgrave in her early radiance. This show has closed, but there's plenty else to see in London, and when you get there you'll find cheap, cozy bed-sits for under $100 a night...
Looking back on it now, it is difficult to choose the precise moment when U.S. government officials--hobbled by old-fashioned rules, saddled with ancient computers that could not talk to one another and riven by silly bureaucratic rivalries--missed their best chance to thwart the plot by 19 hijackers to take over four airplanes, turn them into flying missiles and kill almost 3,000 people nearly two years...
...attacks of 2001, when very little was comforting, it was almost a relief to hear top Bush Administration officials argue that there was really no way the U.S. government could have foreseen, much less prevented, the deadly attacks on Washington and New York City. Osama bin Laden's plot was too diabolical, they said, too well executed and too perfectly aimed at the blind spots of our homeland defense for anyone to have imagined or foiled it. "We were surprised by what happened here," said Vice President Dick Cheney five days afterward...
...Heroic Duo's plot, however, is as creaky as any martial artsploitation flick. Leon Lai makes his action-hero debut here, playing a police hypnotist drafted to foil evil Francis Ng, who is trying to get his hands on some precious gems. Lai, perennial romantic-comedy star and one of the original "heavenly Kings" of Canto-pop, makes a sympathetic leading man. When we find that Ng has taken Lai's family hostage, we eagerly anticipate his inevitable revenge. For an action movie that lingers over a few touchy-feely scenes, Lai is an inspired selection. Lai for the most...
...VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Pedro Almodovar directs this comedy filled with all your favorite soap-opera twists. Pepa, who realizes that her lover Ivan is leaving her, goes on a gun rampage and drugs Ivan’s son’s fiancee with Valium-laced gazpacho. The plot complicates when her friend Candela falls in love with a Shiite terrorist and hides out at Pepa’s home. Then she meets Ivan’s son, Carlos (Antonio Banderas). The 1988 Spanish comedy, filmed in Madrid, is irresistible. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown screens...