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Most impressive of all, however, was the brilliant staging of perhaps the most famous, and most often clichéd, scenes in all of theater: the balcony scene. The director’s skill shines through with his ingenious use of space and his genuine staging in this beautifully-handled scene...
These scenes prove both the director’s skill and the versatility of Romeo and Juliet’s text...
...only a matter of months before these Darwinian marvels learn to use a can opener, a skill that will lift them to a higher stage of mouse evolution - and to the more civilized pleasures of canned Mexicorn, Bush's baked beans, and solid white, water-packed tuna. In a generation or two, smart young mice will have a system of pulleys that will open the refrigerator door in the middle of the night. God knows how a new infusion of butter, protein-rich cheese, yogurt, red-leaf lettuce, and V-8 juice will invigorate the breed and enlarge its cerebral...
...Kiss of the Dragon opened to slightly softer business than Romeo Must Die. This has less to do with the quality of the two films (Dragon is much preferable in atmosphere, directorial skill and the climactic face-off) than with the featured player. Nothing against Fonda, who still has the most wickedly flirtatious mouth of any Hollywood actress. But Chinese action stars have succeeded with the American public only when their co-stars are African-American. Jackie Chan had his one big U.S. hit, Rush Hour, with the black comic Chris Tucker; the love interest in Romeo Must...
...beyond picking the right person—a skill for which the former Treasury Secretary is well known—Summers also has the luxury of being able to define the provost’s role as he sees...