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...telling you that fame and fortune are not what they're cracked up to be." MADONNA, singer and actress, promoting her new album...
...only structure to the day was the meal schedule: breakfast at 7:30 a.m., lunch at noon and dinner at the faintly ridiculous time of 5:30 p.m. The cook was an ebullient, roly-poly Czech named Victor, who had had a previous career as a lounge singer in the U. S. The cuisine was the only category in which the Ingrid Oldendorff failed to match the standard of the cruise ships I've sailed with: the meals were ample, well cooked and tasty enough but monotonous, with an emphasis on meat and potatoes and garnished alternately by pickles...
...gripping action sequence: the president is under attack by a mysterious creature that has broken into the White House. Unfortunately, the creature can dodge secret service guards’ bullets by disappearing into thin air and reappearing elsewhere moments later, an effect that is pulled off seamlessly. Director Brian Singer never forfeits his trust in the moviegoers’ attention spans, preferring the long, focused shot to the edit-crazy butchering of a Jerry Bruckheimer film...
...Stryker, with an expression of utter gravity, replies, “I don’t know. But it comes out of the basketball court.” Adding a tongue-in-cheek quality to such lines would probably have worked much better than playing them straight. But Singer otherwise handles the material admirably, juggling a crowded script and executing the most complex special effects with ease. With X2, he delivers an appealing popcorn movie that may lack the freshness of the original, but successfully avoids its narrative and visual shortcomings...
...Singer Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s rousing fiddle playing shines on the title track, a welcome set of jigs that break pace from the downtrodden songs that open the album. While Ní Mhaonaigh’s voice enchants, particularly on the Irish language tracks “Cuach mo Lon Dubh Buí” and “An Cailín Deas Óg,” the album’s real strength is its instrumentals. Arguably the group’s backbone, these tunes burst with the energy...