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...DAVID SIEGEL Travel Salesman...
...great twist--a woman (Tilda Swinton, right) and her blackmailer (Goran Visnjic) fall in love. She's trying to protect her son from extortion, but she can't protect herself from the soulful, vulnerable man who wants her cash. The result, co-directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, is an elegant, romantically doomy movie that rises well above its precipitating gimmick...
...Letterman's meaningful irony (which is really a principled response to phoniness). But real irony--the basis of satire--is possible and valuable in addressing war. (Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, for instance, are darkly ironic yet serious works.) When theonion.com returns this week, says editor Robert Siegel, it will address the events carefully, aiming for a poignant, "cathartic" humor. Stewart also laced his aching monologue with touchingly self-deprecating jokes. "I'm sorry to do this to you," he said on his return. "It's another entertainment show beginning with the overwrought speech of a shaken host...
edited by Robert Siegel...
Nobody has picked up any of my quotes yet. In fact I'm having a hard time getting the studios to plunk down $50,000 for the newspaper. But no one on my staff is doing it for the money. Like Gene Shalit and Joel Siegel before us, we just get a big kick out of seeing our names in the paper. That's what drives people like us into this business. That and the free popcorn...