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...bother. It’s nothing new—one part “Lose Control,” one part “Lose My Breath,” and one part “Tricky.” LL and Jermaine engage in rhyme-scheme and sound-scape rip-off so blatant that it simultaneously makes the listener forget the former’s significant contributions to hip-hop while somehow also eclipsing the mountain of crap that the latter has produced. Poor J-Lo is stuck in the middle (literally—the video splits LL?...
Ranting has many styles, many purposes. Sometimes its only ambition is to vilify. Robert Burns once let fly at a critic in these terms: "Thou eunuch of language; thou butcher . . . thou arch-heretic in pronunciation, thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis . . . thou pimp of gender . . . thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax." On and on he went...
...disabled but untrammeled personification of evil and, at the company's other home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a darkly funny As You Like It, again dazzlingly directed by Noble. His splendid, spare, Freudian production uses a flowing white sailcloth draped about the stage to represent a snowstorm, a dream-scape, a bower and a marriage tent...
...cool thing about this digital scare-scape is how fidelity to Miller's vision liberated Rodriguez and the cast. Everyone has a great time playing it hard and fast. For all its astronomical body count, Sin City is brazenly, thrillingly alive. --By Richard Corliss
...given that we?re still reading conflicting accounts of whether that was inflation or deflation looming in the shadows of last week?s PPI. The Consumer Price Index, of course, is the inflation number we can spot at the mall, and with discount wars festering across the retail scape, it?s hard to imagine July prices doing anything levitationary - at least not enough to scare Greenspan into cutting out the rate cuts August...