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...Coppola's approach is piquant, and it could be fun in a five-minute Saturday Night Live sketch, but it does not sustain a two-hour treatment. After a few scenes, audiences are likely to say, "We get the point." The result is a shallow film about shallow people - a cinematic pastry that leaves a sour taste. As the French would say, ce bonbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off With Her Film! | 5/25/2006 | See Source »

...very beginning of the trial, I actually admired both men," she said. "I wanted very badly to believe what they were saying." She said the case was like a puzzle ?with 25,000 pieces dumped on the table.? To show his appreciation, Judge Lake commissioned the courtroom sketch artist to draw a portrait of the jurors. He gave a copy to each after the verdict, along with a certificate of appreciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Lay and Skilling Win on Appeal? | 5/25/2006 | See Source »

...14th arrondisement. In the Payne sketch, Margo Martindale is a Denver mail carrier on a Paris holiday. Wandering alone through parks in the city whose language she has tried to master (the narration is in hilarious fractured French - the kind we speak in restaurants and shops here), she comes to understand the fragile gift of solitude in a big, beautiful city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes's First Really Good Movie | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...people will watch a dozen shows about cops, they'll watch two about TV writers, right? NBC has picked up Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a drama by AARON SORKIN (of West Wing fame) about backstage goings-on at a late-night sketch-comedy show, and looks likely to pick up Saturday Night Live star TINA FEY'S as-yet-unnamed sitcom about backstage goings-on at a late-night sketch-comedy show. Now all we need is a show about backstage goings-on when two shows about late-night sketch-comedy shows make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 22, 2006 | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...metalicized surface of the cardboard. Two or three snips later a rhomboid shape drops free. Fingers pick it up and start crimping and bending it, propping it against the toy-sized model building. Eventually, it is taped to the little construct (think of it as a three-dimensional sketch) and the architect, Frank Gehry, starts musing about what it does - and does not do - for his design. By and large, he seems, tentatively, to like its effect more than he dislikes it. For the moment, it stays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schickel on Movies | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

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