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Close up, offscreen, Depardieu gives you the charm and the power. The man can swagger sitting down. His lank hair, which looks as if he swiped it from a schoolgirl who has played hooky all year long, frames a huge face -- bulbous nose and ship-prow chin dominating the small, lively eyes. Devouring a steak over lunch at the swank George V hotel in Paris, he cascades opinions on any subject, from Dostoyevsky to David Letterman, punctuating his effusions with grand, intense gestures. When a waitress arrives to pour the St. Pourcain, Depardieu proffers the larger of his two stem...
Lasers embroidered the curtains with bursts of aquamarine and white to simulate lightning. An electronic hiss and crackle conjured up thunder. Billows of cloth suggested wind and rain, then fell away to reveal the swaying prow of a tempest-tossed Renaissance ship. Its captain shouted orders, wrestled with the wheel, tumbled into a make-believe sea and emerged a moment later as if dragging himself onto shore. He cried in triumph, "Sweet Jesus, I'm alive...
...only really likable characters are the son Will, his best friend Wag and another youth named Spencer, who is obsessed with the disappearance of the dinosaurs. "In the boy's bedroom were hundreds of dinosaur models . . . An inflated Rhamphorhynchus dangled from the ceiling fixture. ('It means "prow beak," ' Spencer said.)" Spencer is showing his dinosaurs to a hungry-eyed art-gallery owner named Haveabud, who, in a truly sinister scene watched by Will, seduces him during a trip to Florida. There is quite a bit of sex in Beattieland, most of it adulterous and joyless...
...owned the rights to graze their cattle there. Now, on the very fence they built to control their herd, the Freeport-McMoRan Gold Co. has posted a big KEEP OUT sign. Waste rock from the mining operation has begun pushing toward the canyon like a moraine advancing at the prow of a glacier...
...horror-movie set. At times the Inlet seems just a bad joke. Standing over one bunker-style housing & project is a billboard touting one of developer Donald Trump's two casinos: TRUMP CASTLE. WHERE BETTER IS NOT ENOUGH. Just beyond the corner, in the distance, pokes the upswept prow of Trump's 282-ft. yacht, the Trump Princess, at which local kids like to throw rocks. Even Al Glasgow, who has knocked around Atlantic City for 18 years and now publishes a newsletter on casinos, finds the picture cataclysmic. "It's not the end of the world...