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...that another way: his work is relaxed without being slack, affectionate without going sentimental. Above all, he leaves his actors room to breathe, to live, as it were, between the script's lines. Zellweger blooms in this context. Her naivete is radical, of course, but that imparts a fierce serenity to her quest. Mostly, the people she encounters on the road and in Los Angeles quickly come to understand that she is off her rocker--except the soap-opera folk, who think she's an actress going to any lengths for a job--but there is such sweetness...
...aged tough guy (James Caan) to two punks (Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro). They've kidnapped a young woman (Juliette Lewis) pregnant with a baby she is carrying for the sleazy rich man who employs Caan as enforcer. Got it? McQuarrie, who managed suspense quite smartly in his script for The Usual Suspects, here devises a two-hour gunfight interrupted by questions of paternity. But he's not so hot as a director, so what aims at being terrifying is just loud and goofy...
...Castro's hobnobbing with the likes of Jiang and Mahathir (both of whom, like many other world leaders, have their own reasons for sticking it to Clinton in his own backyard) is irritating to Washington, to say the least. After all, according to the U.S. script, the Cuban leader is a polecat who should be shunned rather than feted by Washington's primary Asian trading partner. But these days, fewer and fewer countries are reading off Washington's script in the conduct of international affairs, least of all when it comes to Cuba. Which makes Castro's presence...
Then Bush fell into that trap. His campaign script called for him to spend last week wooing women and independents with education photo-ops and speeches in key states. But what was planned as a week of centrist appeals ended up being consumed by Bush's halting efforts to explain his tax-cut plan. In the first week of head-to-head campaigning after the conventions, Bush committed a cardinal sin: he let his opponent pull him off message...
...Charlie's Angels, which opens Nov. 3, into the most chronicled production since Titanic. The studio has spent around $90 million turning the TV show into a movie (always an iffy investment), but there is good news: ace screenwriter John August (Go) has made a significant contribution to the script, and the eye-popping trailer is exciting audiences. Here's hoping the movie is a babe...