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...palace sex, political backstabbing and violent raids are as today as the Clinton Administration. Of course Ridley Scott, whose only big hit was the 1979 Alien but who directed influential films such as Blade Runner and Thelma & Louise, possessed the vision and stamina to bring a complex story to screen life. And you bet Russell Crowe has the thoughtful, coiled danger, the unfakable maleness to become one of Hollywood's most wanted actors. He simply needed a showcase as grand as this...
...gadget reverie the other evening on the train, fiddling with a sleek new Palm Vx, when I felt a fellow commuter plop down next to me. He sat close--too close--so I looked up and saw a man in a suit leaning over me, peering at my screen. "Got any good games?" he asked. Then he whipped out his own Palm (some kind of III) and pointed it at me. No good games, I admitted, but I did have Vindigo, a real-time list of things to do in Manhattan. "Cool!" he said. "I've got a subway...
...were not behind the screen I think a lot of people would not be in the choir," Karanjia says...
Message 3: Bloodcurdling scream. "Eeeeeee! Honey! There was an e-mail in my Hotmail Inbox from the IRS saying I was being audited! So I opened it and now there's this dancing naked girl running across my screen and she won't go away! Pleaaassee make her go away! Oh my God - what is she doing!!!! Ahhhh! Helllllpppppp..." Gurgling Sound. Click...
Because Allen can basically secure any actor he wants for a part, he virtually writes characters with those actors in mind. That's why his ensemble casts consistently produce the best performances every year. In _Small Time Crooks_, Allen actually gives up most of the screen time to Tracy Ullman who easily might score an Oscar nomination (in the slot usually held for one of Woody's actors) next March; Ullman's Frenchy has the unenviable task of eliciting the audience's empathy even though we know exactly where the character is headed. But Ullman never lets her characer degenerate...