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This may seem like something out of Ionesco, but the Pentagon is playing by a script. For months Secretary of Defense William Cohen has fretted that Pentagon officials were leaking too much sensitive security information to the press. The top brass ordered a clampdown on the release of specifics about the NATO campaign in Kosovo, so military briefers have remained maddeningly vague. Take the oft-repeated NATO goal of "degrading" the Yugoslav military. "Degrading could mean breaking the window of a barracks," says George Wilson, a former Pentagon reporter for the Washington Post. "We don't have any specifics...
...bring the review down to earth. While the movie is generally well-written, often funny, only the final twists allow things to just squeak into an ending before turning irredeemably tiresome. Everyone seems overly confident in the script's zinginess and protean plotting--and therefore gets lazy...
...Most Jaded Police Sergeant in the World, DeGeneres does her usual deadpan routine, often mistaken for a dry reading of the script...gets tiresome, even more quickly because the set piece one-liner barbs evoke a senile or non-acting star (Brando or the Beatles) who can only film one line per take. Although the numbing sarcasm seems so sick that it ultimately becomes appropriate...
...know a reasonable answer to the question will be found or this wouldn't live up to true commercial blockbuster form. Rolled up in the script's equation are a school and newspaper office full of colorful characters who provide momentum leading to the ultimate conclusion. Along the way, the movie weaves in a moral message or two in addition to the many hilarious mishaps of Josie's assignment and the saddening falls from her blossoming grace. The creativity underlying the fresh situations which evoke such emotional peaks and valleys in Never Been Kissed, are the same extremes we experience...
...That was very much in the script, and it was one of the things that captivated me when I first read it. Right before we were in production, I was doing this miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon, and I was playing Neil Armstrong! So I got really in to the whole space thing. But what I most got from that that I didn't appreciate as a kid is how momentous that moment was for most Americans. For working people from Brooklyn; [incredulously] the fact that a man could walk on the moon...