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MALLE MAKES SUCH SCENES seem plausible in his Atlantic City, and as a slice of fallen life this is a successful film. But as a presentation of a handful of characters and their lives Atlantic City fails. Malle seems to have trouble casting male Americans: Keith Carradine's deadwood performance in Pretty Baby nearly ruined that movie, and in Atlantic City Burt Lancaster acts with such leaden sluggishness you wonder if the projector is running at the right speed...
Although Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were contemporaries, they never met. By the 1860s. Darwin had already published The Origin of Species, assuring himself a slice of eternity and a reputation as one of history's most influential scientific thinkers. But, Mendel remained an obscure Austrian cleric, an inconsequential geneticist whose genius was not recognized until 20 years after, his death. Darwin was certainly unfamiliar with the monk's work, and Mendel has left no word of what he thought of Darwin's evolutionary theory, a theory that tried to explain the diversity and similarities among organisms, both past...
Even worse, the passions which drove noir seem almost charming today. When Roman Polanski made the mock-noir Chinatown, he had to slice open Nicholson's nostril to get the same effect that was once accomplished by showing a couple of thugs lurking outside the window. Leave it to the Reader's Digest to mourn our passing national innocence--but the real problem is we've lost our faith in passion. Murder and passion seem almost antithetical at the present, and adultery--well, adultery is for adolescents...
...stop at the pizza place across the street. As I wait for my slice, a guy in a London Fog walks up to the counter next to me and asks the guy that works there if he's got any tickets. The guy says sure. London Fog asks how much. Pizza Man says 110 for the pair, 60 for a single. I laugh at their little joke, until London Fog pulls out three 20s and Pizza Man hands over a yellow ticket. "Hey Mom, did you see that? That guy paid 60 dollars for a grandstand ticket...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain emerged from the 1938 Munich Conference, having ceded a slice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, and made his slogan "peace in our time" synonymous with disastrous appeasement. Chamberlain's policy was largely a reflection of the popular pacifist sentiment in prewar Britain. Only a hopeless alarmist would suggest that such calamitous history might be repeating itself today. But Western military experts and policymakers are undeniably concerned by an increasing reluctance by Europe's man-in-the-street to accept the necessity of self-defense...