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...dinner. Suddenly, a man in the pack yelps and falls to the ground. The other three panic, not knowing what's wrong. Did he step in a ditch and sprain his ankle? Or had he been bitten by the Sea Krait water snake, the world's most venomous serpent? The experts had warned them about that, but nobody really thought it would happen. Suddenly somebody snaps, running off into the woods alone in a blind panic. What will happen to him? Tune in next week...
...Patrick is stylish and creepy--Jack the Ripper in an Armani outfit. Bale's dishy anonymity (he stares at himself and says, "I simply am not there") makes him the ideal black hole at the center of this movie. It needs to be seen and appreciated, like a serpent in a glass cage...
Overall, however, Children of Eden more than recovers from these deficencies, largely due to the strength of the choreography and the staging. Eve's confrontation with the snake is brilliantly arranged. The snake begins as the tree of knowledge, then changes into a slithering six-person serpent. And the depiction of Noah and the Flood, in which the cast virtually becomes drops of water, is another of the first act's great achievements...
GOOD BOOK GOES HIP: Visionaire, the high-concept, high-priced quarterly in which edgy visual artists of every stripe explore one subject, has turned to the Bible. Catherine Chalmers has a sexy take on the serpent, above, and Enrique Badulescu recasts David and Goliath as fashion models. A curved wooden Frank Gehry creation becomes Noah's Ark. Even Philippe Starck's spiky plastic packaging is fun. Not as visionary as the original, but fascinating...
...RUNNER-UP] MARILYN QUAYLE (7): Embrace the Serpent and The Campaign: A Novel...