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...have seen the future, and it's cool. Using green screen, stars like Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke, and a style so rich and lurid it ought to be illegal, Robert Rodriguez has perfected a system that is to old-fashioned filmmaking what Grand Theft Auto is to your father's Oldsmobile. The movie's pretty good too: a gnarly noir nightmare in four parts, which the unrated DVD presents with added footage and a zillion natty extras...
...folks, politicians, criminals, and, yes, the cops who have to untangle the messes the make, work out their fates. To say that Paul Haggis's film is multi-layered understates the case. But there is great clarity in his direction, shrewd observation in the screenplay (which he wrote with Robert Moresco and rafts of terrific acting-most notably by Matt Dillon as a racist cop who becomes the reluctant hero of the piece-in this smart, intelligently observed film...
...Jenkins Saga TIME excerpted the autobiography of Charles Robert Jenkins, the U.S. Army sergeant who deserted while serving in South Korea and spent 40 years in North Korea until the Japanese government negotiated his departure in 2004 [Oct. 24]. I am a U.S. citizen living in Japan, and I don't understand why Jenkins' detractors, presumably patriotic Americans, who wrote letters to TIME [Nov. 21] would second-guess the U.S. Army's decision to allow Jenkins to live as a free man in Japan. Jenkins left North Korea believing that he would spend the rest of his life...
...journalism. He revels in the access he enjoyed to Canada's 'elites,' even as he gives some of his dinner companions the back of his hand. Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, he says, turned Canada 'into a people of whining, politically conformist welfare addicts' ... He describes the late Robert Maxwell, kleptocratic owner of the Daily Mirror and the New York Daily News, as 'an endomorphic ... poseur, fugitive and confidence trickster' ... [Black] is uncharacteristically cryptic about the future of newspaper publishing, noting simply that 'literacy and the printed word are not as out of fashion as many have feared...
...American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherman 721 pages