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...Walsh stares at the television in the interview room of Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center. It’s one of the few places to boast a VCR these days, and once the tape begins, the senior defenseman is asked to identify the images dancing across the screen.“Well,” he says, “here we have Coach Donato with about five hairs—which is four more than he has right now—hugging some crazy lady on ‘The Price Is Right...
...Ricci (who lends guest vocals to the track). It feels like he’s the hidden-message programmer from the climax of “2001: A Space Odyssey”…you know, when Dave shuts down HAL 9000, and there’s the screen of the guy that pops up, telling Dave what the real reason for the mission was?Well, it feels like that. Except I didn’t cry at the end of this video, and I weep like a little girl whenever I see HAL getting shut down.Seriously, though?...
...High Fidelity”) bitter wit, and Oliver Platt’s (TV’s “The West Wing”) slapstick drollery, nothing can save the hackneyed storyline of this too-dark comedy. Based on the novel by Scott Phillips and adapted for the screen by Richard Russo (“Twilight”) and Robert Benton (“Superman”), “The Ice Harvest” reminds viewers of a darker “Grosse Pointe Blank.” Every 10 seconds, someone in Cusack’s latest film...
...every word. Often they have even cast it. In the late 1930s, by the thousands, readers of Gone With the Wind demanded that Southern rogue Rhett Butler be played by that damn yankee Clark Gable. Readers are a very possessive bunch. So in taking a novel from page to screen, movie adapters must tread carefully, like a new visitor at Lourdes...
...nearly as great a pain to the cops as to the crooks he nabbed. The cases and car chases were not anything special; Rockford's raffish sense of humor and ability to fast-talk his way out of any jam were. Garner's insouciance bursts off the screen like a Pontiac Firebird flying off a ramp...