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...also a sleek Hollywoodizing, a ruthlessly canny face-lift of Groom's novel. In the book, Forrest was just as naive but not quite so innocent or lucky: he had some sex, did some drugs and missed out on the nuclear family that in the movie Forrest finally gets to tend. In pumping up Jenny's role, screenwriter Eric Roth transferred all of Forrest's flaws -- and most of the excesses Americans committed in the '60s and '70s to her. Wright's Jenny is a frail soul in tailspin, a battered child in a beautiful woman's body. And Forrest...
Every few weeks a sleek white ship sails from Japan to the North Korean port of Wonsan. On board are scores of Koreans eager to visit relatives -- along with a cargo that until recently often included such high-tech items as powerful computers and troves of cash, much of it exported in violation of Japanese law. Because Tokyo is reluctant to antagonize either the Kim Il Sung government or the North Koreans who live in Japan, customs officials had previously turned a blind...
Administrators have caught the bug, too.Outgoing provost Jerry R. Green uses not the phonebut a sleek, black Powerbook to communicate withthe outside world...
...procedure that divides the House of Commons into two opposing camps and also alludes to the rift between Gilmour and bassist Roger Waters, who left Pink Floyd in 1984. It was Waters who in the early 1970s masterminded the band's transformation from an acid-rock act into a sleek, shadowy outfit that used high-tech wizardry and mordant humor to skewer greedy capitalists, warmongering generals and -- most evil of all -- nasty headmasters. With Waters as its leader, Pink Floyd became famous for its surrealistic, multimedia concerts, culminating with the tour for the band's 1980 album The Wall. Those...
...predictable and melodramatic, though many of the relationship scenes are poignant. The performance scenes, however, are explosively energetic and entertaining. The film's highlight is the cultural whirlwind tour of the music and fashion of the decades it encompasses. The aesthetic experience generated by the fantastic wigs, glittery and sleek costumes, the recognizable tunes and the panoramic views of the concerts make this film one of the most visually creative of the year...