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...could be enough. General Mills is re-examining cereal boxes, Kodak has ditched the black-box camera, Swingline has streamlined its standard stapler. Any company without in-house talent is reaching for a hot design consultant. "Manufacturers recognize that consumers are looking for more than functional benefits," says Barry Shepard, co-founder of SHR Perceptual Management, the design consultancy that helped conceive the Volkswagen Beetle. "A product that matters needs to say something about the person who owns...
Austin (John C. Reilly) is a pulled-together Hollywood screenwriter; his brother Lee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a slobbish small-time burglar. If you think you know these guys, think again. By play's end, Shepard has wreaked havoc with stereotypes and with plenty more. In this smashing Broadway revival, his 20-year-old drama proves timeless--a fierce, funny and frightening take on sibling rivalry. Or is it about two sides of the same person? Even the casting (ideal, as seen) begs the question: the two actors--both familiar from the films Boogie Nights and Magnolia--will rotate...
...Modena is the latest battleground over gay-straight alliances--student-organized clubs that promote the rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Active in scattered locations for about a decade, they turned into something of a national movement after the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard. There are now more than 700 gay-straight clubs in schools from Iowa to New Jersey to Georgia, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. Members need not identify their sexual orientation, and many alliances serve primarily as forums for discussing all things teen. "It's really important to feel there...
...ridden. Unaware of the statute of limitations, Vinnie now belatedly launches into a more muddled plan of blackmail and retribution, requiring the complicity of the chief victim of the original crime (Albert Finney), who has made slightly pretentious peace with the past. Derived from a not-very-successful Sam Shepard play, this is a shaggy, overstuffed film. But the actors (including Sharon Stone as Lyle's drunken wife and Catherine Keener as a wise innocent) are all, for some reason, inspired, and the result is curiously, if fitfully, intriguing...
...left with the difficult task of posing silently for Hicks's long montages. Hawke and Kudoh are both admirably restrained for the most part, and they do a creditable job in their scenes together. Max Von Sydow does a marvelous turn as decrepit defense attorney Nels Gudmundsson, as do Shepard and Ako as the parents of the young lovers. Also, Max Wright (as a doddering coroner) and Celia Weston (as the righteously bigoted mother of the deceased) deserve special mention for their brief appearances on the witness stand...