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...friends are in denial, delusional or willfully deceptive. Many people learned a lesson from Watergate and the failed cover-up. Others, apparently, are still covering up. Mitchell J. Fine El Dorado Hills, California, U.S. A Pressing Need In his essay "Dark Secrets in the Parking Garage" [June 13], Richard Schickel wondered whether we could use more investigative reporters like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in Washington now. There is no question about it. We need others like them to uncover the lies and distortions that are issued each day by the Bush Administration. John Dean, Nixon's lawyer, has branded...
Bewitched means to be a civilized entertainment, which occasionally it is. But the gentility of this antique sitcom cannot be recaptured at this late date. What this revival needs is a good kick in the pants. And that Ephron and friends lack the low cunning to deliver. --By Richard Schickel...
...rhythms of bucolic life. For his camera just hunkers down, awhittlin' and aspittin' and oafishly gawking at these less than astonishing goings-on. Field is perky, Garner is wry in their familiar ways, but the film is basically a bottle of January molasses, running slow. And sticky. --By Richard Schickel SUGARBABY...
...more critical implications, he relies too much on reaction shots of Matisse for easy, innocent laughs. Well, Disney did produce the film (its first with an R rating), and on the basically farcical level where it chooses to stay, it is a funny and likable movie. --By Richard Schickel...
...previously had a chance to tap. That, in turn, gives Newman something to grapple with. There is a sort of contained rage in his work that he has never found before, and it carries him beyond the bounds of image, the movie beyond the bounds of genre. --By Richard Schickel...