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These are not the people you expect to come to the rescue. Rock stars are designed to be shiny, shallow creatures, furloughed from reality for all time. Billionaires are even more removed, nestled atop fantastic wealth where they never again have to place their own calls or defrost dinner or fly commercial. So Bono spends several thousand dollars at a restaurant for a nice Pinot Noir, and Bill Gates, the great predator of the Internet age, has a trampoline room in his $100 million house. It makes you think that if these guys can decide to make it their mission...
...place the entire career of one of Japan's most important artists. The exhibition is long overdue not just because it highlights his consistently excellent work, but because it showcases a somewhat neglected version of modern Japanese art?somber, contemplative, melancholy and utterly different from the fun but shallow Day-Glo Superflat school popularized by neopop superstar Takashi Murakami and his look-alike minions...
Most boringly didactic are Van Damm’s speeches, comparing the show-must-go on mentality to wartime resilience, presumably the ultimate message of the film. Yet because the film’s treatment of wartime England is so shallow, this message comes off as clichéd. The movie should have remained a parody of British prudishness; as a sentimental tribute to the human spirit, the film is fatal...
...Musicals usually swim in the shallow end of the genre pool, but Chan's film borders on the subversive?there are no fairy-tale endings, and no character escapes unscathed. That may challenge audiences in Asia and beyond, but Perhaps Love deserves as wide a following as it can find, not least because it's a harbinger of a time when the global movie industry will be increasingly driven by Chinese tastes and Chinese stories. But that's for tomorrow's film execs to contemplate. Today, Chan's images rattle in the mind: a distraught Lin wading through his midnight...
...from her “Erotica” days. The album’s “future disco” sound is devoid of any meaning. In fact, the album makes a point of being completely shallow. From its lazy lyrics (On “Jump,” she chants “Get ready to jump/Don’t ever look back, baby”) to its simple themes (“Like It Or Not,” “Push,” and, once again, “Jump”), Madonna?...