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...thing; indeed, he must destroy the part of civilization he has erected in order to let his son live a few more years in innocence. Boorman's triumph is to reclaim, for himself and the viewer, that Edenic state where domestic tragedy takes on the sheen of myth, and where art is its own purging adventure: baptism by film. --By Richard Corliss
Beneath all the clever clangery is a moral. For a celebrity world that venerates tummy tucks, frozen faces and bosom enhancement--where the rich and famous strive for their own metallic solidity and sheen--Robots has an old-fashioned message: "You can shine no matter what you're made of." In other words: Why be new when you can be the very best you? That's a notion even humans can profit from. --By Richard Corliss
...been so long since CHARLIE SHEEN was in the news for roughing up a girlfriend, hiring a hooker or getting high that it seemed the former Hollywood bad boy had honestly reformed. He may have, but last week his wife, model turned Bond girl DENISE RICHARDS, six months pregnant with their second child, filed for divorce. Richards cited irreconcilable differences and wants custody of the children and spousal support. "We are deeply saddened," the couple said. The sheen, apparently, is off the Sheen...
Other songs are vintage Cinerama—two tracks top six minutes, and Gedge’s voice is adapted to a slick sheen, with trademark frank lyrics, accompanied by soothing, Enya-like vocals. In these songs, “Interstate 5 (Extended Version)” in particular, the guitars are drawn out to dramatic effect, churning and emotionally pulling, evoking images of intent searching on a dark highway, in the sort of film-music vein so inspirational to Cinerama...
...more than 3.1 million Indians own shares in Reliance companies, which have a combined market capitalization of more than $20 billion. Yet it has taken just one extraordinary week?during which a long-simmering battle for control of the conglomerate burst into the open?to strip Reliance of the sheen of invincibility it acquired over four decades...