Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parker and Dawson heard about the crash on the car radio. Keith Morehouse was home watching The Newlywed Game with his mother and his twin sister when the bulletin flashed across the screen. "My mother shrieked and started making frantic phone calls," Keith recalls. "People started coming over, and it was a blur after that." Longtime Huntington residents can tell you without hesitation where they were when they first heard the news--at the drive-in movie theater, in a restaurant, at a dance. Jack Hardin, a police reporter for the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, rushed to the airport not knowing...
...York law firm that snags Keanu Reeves' hotshot Souhtern lawyer and quickly enmeshes him in a half-kinky, half-campy world of sin and decadence. Borrowing from The Firm and Rosemary's Baby without quite matching either in wit or originality, it tends to flag whenever Pacino's off screen. Fortunately, he's never away for long and treats us to a devilishly good time...
...translating Wendy Kesselman's play to the screen, I Love You, I Love You Not becomes limply flat. The filmmakers have apparently forgot the need for logical connections and transitions. As a result, the attempt to cross the themes of a modern story of teenage angst with historical drama is doomed from the start, despite valiant efforts by Claire Danes and Jeanne Moreau to elevate the film above the listless script. I Love You, I Love You Not fails as an injudicious, offensive appropriation of the Holocaust...
Paper is something of an ostentation these days. All the information we need jumps off a screen and is abstracted back into electrons when we look away. "Books" are the gilded volumes that crown the achievements of the canonized. "Books" are placed strategically on a conspicuous shelf to bestow a semblance of weathered intellectualism. "Books" gather dust...
Dean Martin, we discover, is George Clooney's hero. But Clooney does not want merely to act like Martin; he wants to be Martin, to be this 1950s manly man of the big screen. George wants to recreate the time when "men were men and women were broads but 'broad' was a compliment." Which may be the most honest section of the article. The vision of masculinity that Clooney tries to embody is a fiction of the screen and the novel, circa the 1950s, a disembodied and dangerous ideal-type of what it is to be a real...