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...Charlie Sheen apparently can't find happiness with women who don't get paid for their services. Sheen spoke of his separation from model Donna Peele, his wife of five months, on Entertainment Tonight: "I couldn't breathe. I had to come up for air," he said. As if that weren't gallant enough, he added, "You buy a bad car, it breaks down, what are you gonna do?" Peele took the high road on Extra, saying she was hurt by his remarks but still loved him. She also said she didn't know Sheen had booked 27 of Heidi...
After receiving an anonymous call on January 25, state investigators discovered an oily sheen on the Charles River near the Boston University Bridge, according to Agustin F. Carbo, the on-site coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency...
Vermeer wasn't a great draftsman, and he could be an oddly clumsy one in some details of the human body--though he excelled in virtuoso rendering of inanimate objects, catching the moony sheen of pearls or the precise tautness of a viol's catgut strings. As an analyst of human character, he was quite vapid compared with Rembrandt or Frans Hals...
There, in case you've missed it, is Mann's point. Throughout the movie, he has given us a vision of Los Angeles that goes beyond the usual sheen-and-scuzz contrasts it amuses most directors to observe. His L.A. is a void, a blankness, something like an empty movie screen--or an empty modern soul--waiting to be filled up with that most hypnotic of abstractions, violent action. This, he's saying, is what some of us are good at. And, all pieties aside, look how much we like...
...best armored-car robbery ever placed on film, Schickel notes Mann is seeking not only to revive the urban action picture but to make a subtler point about cinematic violence: "Throughout the movie, he gives us a vision of Los Angeles that goes beyond the usual sheen-and-scuzz contrasts it amuses most directors to observe. His L.A. is a void, a blankness, something like an empty movie screen, or an empty modern soul, waiting to be filled up with that most hypnotic of abstractions, violent action. This, he's saying, is what some of us are good...