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...Trey didn't have a lot of confidence in social settings," says his father. "I remember him fretting for two weeks before asking a girl to the prom, then getting turned down. But Mary did. She was a star at social intercourse. She could walk into a room ..." He has the same toothy smile as his son, the same smudgy glasses covering twinkling eyes. But now, for just a moment, he is starting to tear up. His mind does not seem like a computer. He folds his arms across his stomach and starts to rock, gently...
...patent. Paltrow could be something different, maybe unique. She could bring elegance, lightness of touch, pedigree--what used to be called class--back to American movie acting. She has shown glimpses of it in earlier work, as Pitt's anxious wife in Seven and as the ultimate prom date in The Pallbearer. But now Paltrow has a movie all her own. She plays, beautifully, the title role in Douglas McGrath's sweet new take on the Jane Austen novel Emma...
...over his opponents, of which his personal fortune is only one. Most of the press corps, and the voters, are treating him gently, though that will change as the scrutiny increases. He is so awkward in person--the boy who won't ask the girl to dance at the prom--that voters who meet him think he can't be for real, and so conclude that he must be. Unlike Dole, he has a single, clear message--Mr. Flat Tax--shellacked onto his forehead. Unlike both Dole and Phil Gramm, he is not a member in good standing...
...black underclass. And in Michael Henry Brown's screenplay, nothing much is added to earlier work in these fields by Francis Coppola and Oliver Stone. Yet Dead Presidents is well worth watching for the Hugheses' prodigal camera finesse. In some of their elaborate tracking shots (at a prom-night party, over a series of backyard fences), you get a hint that their art could mature quickly. Cinema needs the Hugheses at their best--which is yet to come...
There is a far greater significance to the surprising leftist-rightist handshake which has lingered and become a slow dance, even as Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 looks on in silent disapproval like a curmudgeon civics teacher drafted to chaperone the junior prom. It is a portent of the future. And anyone who is frightened by the religious right had better pay attention...