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...cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in 50s Los Angeles with all its gradations of ethics. Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and a finer tale...
...Slick men often leave vulnerable women with broken hearts, but Williams left his many girlfriends in danger of far worse. According to Chautauqua health officials, Williams is the source of a near epidemic of HIV in the county of 141,000 and has caused the greatest public health crisis the area has ever faced. Since learning that he was HIV-positive in September 1996, Williams has had sex with dozens of young women in and around Jamestown, N.Y., and also in New York City, apparently without ever using protection or disclosing his condition...
...good), then the upright bass enters the picture (very good), followed by background singers crooning "na na" (what the...?). The rest of the album is maddeningly uneven in the same way. Catchy, funky numbers are buffered by colorless, inarticulate rants. Promising compositions are deprived of vitality by slick production and extraneous instruments and vocals...
...brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in 50s Los Angeles, with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe turn in fine performances that give you two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and finer tale...
...musical history as the first as-told-to symphony, though McCartney's associates loyally insist that the final product is all Paul. If so, it's a vanity production. Standing Stone's themes are nondescript, its harmonies blandly predictable, its structure maddeningly repetitious, and its scoring bloated and slick, with bits and pieces of popular classical works occasionally bobbing to the surface (Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe and Orff's Carmina Burana both make cameo appearances...