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...also the source for Jessica Rabbit in the 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit, is vintage Avery -- a hilariously precise essay on the elemental impulses of desire, hunger, revenge and infantile mischief-making. It offers a smart introduction to a popular artist who used warp-speed motion to plumb dark emotions and who created some of film's most anarchic, surreal, fall-down-funny visions...
Cameron was eager to plumb these dark waters. "I liked the comedy potential of the lies, the facades, the allegory of relationships," he says. "For me, this movie is about the unknowability of people. And I loved the potential of Arnold playing the spy role. Arnold lives in a strange, dialectic world. On one hand, he's a family man; on the other, he's a superstar, which means that so much is expected of him." The role is oddly similar to Schwarzenegger's persona in Last Action Hero: someone who plays a superman at work but in the real...
BOOKS Three former Hizballah hostages look back with dignity, harrowing detail and humor. CINEMA M. Butterfly and Farewell, My Concubine plumb the androgynous East. MUSIC In Miles Davis' final live album, a burst of brilliance. TELEVISION The first televised Porgy and Bess offers more drama for the eye than...
...Russians, on the other hand, have never pretended to happiness. So pollsters there prefer to plumb matters about which the Russians have some working knowledge -- like misery. Surveys reveal that a growing minority, now 14%, feel they would have been better off if the hard-line coup of 1991 had succeeded, 63% say they are sorry the Soviet Union collapsed and 72% believe life under capitalism is even more wretched than it was under communism. So depressed are the Russians that 27% confided to pollsters that they would be delighted to emigrate to Western Europe, even if it meant moving...
...Senator Simon, Mr. Turner and their boosters to claim that TV causes random violence, they must plumb the depths of cynicism. Young people do perceive "the violent message" of television, but they are too stupid to absorb anything else, even if it is just as obvious. This comes from men of a generation, which relies on its children to operate its VCRs...