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...begins with resident deejay Vince Fontaine (Brain Bradley) inviting the pre-teens in the audience to dance to '50s hits onstage. It's pointless fun but goes on far too long. Which isn't really such a bad introduction to the real show...
...same as saying that certain forms of behavior are morally wrong. When the government uses values to condemn, it is no longer a government for the people. Elected officials who use their offices as bully pulpits from which to divide the country along moral differences reduce reasonable discussion to pointless, destructively polarized debate. Politicians who try to use their positions to resolve difficult moral questions see politics as a battleground between good and evil. If only we could keep moral questions separate from political ones, we would gain a clearer understanding of the complexities of both...
Pessimists are worried that Israel may come to see as pointless further concessions to an organization that is increasingly fractious. Arafat's task, as usual, will be to prove the pessimists wrong...
...homoeroticism that is suggested by Marlowe's play is here sketched immediately in broad, unambiguous, 1990s strokes, upstaging the play's own subtleties of language. The filmmakers, clearly delighted with the possibilities of anachronistic dress, sets, and props, can't stop sprinkling them on, even when they're pointless and distracting. Like the abrupt cuts from scene to scene, these anachronisms are jarring and seem altogether a little too precious: a toy robot is set adrift, a bunch of sneakered men are directed in sit-ups by a man in a hooded sweatshirt, and the courtiers at the meeting where...
...about Annie Lennox. At one point, the pop diva (incomprehensibly top-billed) appears from behind a pillar, only to wail a version of Cole Porter's "Everytime We Say Goodbye" as the two lovers caress and cavort around sadly, if such a thing is possible. There are several such pointless dance sequences (sans Lennox), which look as if they might have been choreographed by Janet Jackson. Aside from the sitar music with which "Edward II" opens, the MTV analogue, like that of the perfume ad, is impossible to avoid. All you "campsters" out there might be getting a bit excited...