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Director Barry Levinson, who has been known to place a sentimental scrim over the past, avoids the temptation here. He envisions old-time Hollywood as sleek, hard and distracted by its own overnight success. The whole town acts like an overhandsome star -- rather like Bugsy's friend George Raft (whom Joe Mantegna plays a little too kindly in the film) -- a dumb guy who thinks his prosperity proves that he's smart...
Mitchum was two things De Niro isn't: big and sexy. De Niro's Cady, though, has the cunning of madness. His body tattooed with Old Testament threats, he is a sleek machine of vengeance. He even has some reason for his rank righteousness. Unlike the 1962 film's lawyer (Gregory Peck), who had simply been the witness to Cady's criminal activity, this Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) was once Cady's lawyer, and he has plenty to hide. Sam, his wife Leigh (Jessica Lange) and their daughter Danny (Juliette Lewis) are no ideal family. But they are ideal marks...
During construction, incredulous that an adequate building could be pasted on the unlovely backside of the Fogg, we watched Gwathmey's sleek, even glib, three-story pastiche of high-tech and nostalgia emerge. We were grateful for its glancing homage to LeCorbusier and relieved, perhaps, that it was less bloodless than the original drawings...
Overall, the stucco and cleft-cut stone will give the Getty a nice grittiness lacking in Meier's previous work. Instead of the usual aloof Meieresque facades, the buildings are full of verve; they are even a bit manic. Instead of sleek uninterrupted planes of metal and glass, there are balconies, loggias and shady brise-soleils. If the new Getty becomes a lively, civilized place, it will be because, for all the white-on-white elegance, it is not pristine and hermetic, not another gorgeous monolith. The rugged terrain and Meier's good planning sense have dictated a dense urban...
...back in a sleek black reclining chair, get fitted with futuristic goggles and headphones, and let yourself be carried to a more balanced state of consciousness. Electronic blips bounce between your ears, tiny strobe lights flash into your eyes and scientifically created static fills your head...