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...about W. Mark Felt when he confessed his secret identity. For one thing, he is really old (91). For another, he was visibly feeble, clinging to his walker and speaking haltingly. If he had to step out of the shadows, we would have preferred that he did so looking smart and knowing--more like a guy in a movie, wherein everyone is forever ageless, than like a senior citizen looking to supplement his Social Security...
...fairness, it must be said that the script (by director Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer) breaks with sobriety to give someone, usually Michael Caine as Alfred, Bruce's faithful, fussy butler, something smart to say. Eventually, however, Nolan, who directed the tricky, widely admired Memento, must oblige the conventions of the big-budget action movie: darkly improbable weaponry, pyrotechnics, car chases (the Batmobile is admittedly pretty novel), editing that edges toward incomprehensibility...
...cast in Craig Monahan's just-released tale about a troubled teen working in a small-town peach cannery - but as the central figure's stepmother Jude. It was a seismic shift for McKenzie, whose character ages 20 years. "She had to cross a bridge," recalls Monahan. "She's smart, she knew the time was right and this was a good role to do it in. She ran towards it really." By turns warm and worn, McKenzie is a revelation as Jude, no more so than in the scene where she sings The Carnival is Over across a pub counter...
Married for the first time, in May at age 39, Chrystyna Garrigan, a skin-care consultant from Montclair, N.J., considers herself a pretty modern woman. Smart, independent and cheerfully unconventional, she did not spend her childhood planning the perfect wedding or dreaming of white picket fences...
...Your Show of Shows; in Los Angeles. His goofiness enhanced such roles as Ernest T. Bass, a would-be country Casanova on The Andy Griffith Show,and he went on to direct such TV shows as Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched and the Mel Brooks-Buck Henry spy spoof Get Smart...