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The first song, Penitentiary Philosophy, starts things off aggressively. It's a soul-rock number that wades in, chin out, fists swinging, Badu's voice wailing. Neosoul divas can sometimes drift off into sleepytime music, looking to set moods rather than stir emotions; Badu, from the first track, demonstrates that...
The star also acquits himself quite nicely in the film, which is notable not because it co-stars Helen Hunt (what doesn't co-star Helen Hunt these days?), but because it's Gibson's first foray into romantic comedy. "They haven't naturally come my way," he says when...
Not even these irreverent squiggles, however, can diminish the real testament of the posters: the enduring stardom; the genre jumping; the directing, producing and acting credits that have built his brilliant career during his two decades in the movie business. Yet even by his mammoth standards for success, this has...
If "What Women Want" has its expected success, Gibson will have proved himself a worthy romantic-comedy successor to Cary Grant. Or he could evolve into a Sean Connery, who has in a masterly way affixed himself in the public consciousness as both the beautiful young Bond and the Oscar...
We don't laugh at Puck, but rather we laugh along with him. His misfortunes--academic stress, romantic ineptitude and jealousy of a too-perfect roommate--touch on our own carefully guarded sentiments. And interspersed among these periods of self-doubt are quiet walks among the leaves, moments of innocent...