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...Judging Amy”) there are a few missteps from the new guys. Viewers are pounded with occasional hammer-to-the-head moments, making sure that we clearly see the light bulb lighting up over Capote’s head, or how murderer Perry Smith??s first presence will impact Capote forever.Further, the two criminals, Smith (played by Clifton Collins Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) aren’t quite up to the high standard set by the more accomplished costars. Some of this may be attributed to the creative team, as Smith seems a little...
...novel (her third, after 2000’s name-making “White Teeth” and 2002’s lukewarm “The Autograph Man”) is a test of her ambition. “On Beauty” is an homage—Smith??s term—to E.M. Forster’s 1910 opus “Howards End,” a sweeping tale of two families at ideological war, one vehemently artistic and the other all business...
...Harvard didn’t leave a mark on Smith??s Wellington, it did shape the novel’s trajectory. She quotes Professor of English Elaine Scarry’s essay “On Beauty and Being Just” in a section opener: “A University is among the precious things that can be destroyed...
Despite her lofty goals, Smith??s final page grants little resolution, not at all like her first, sweeping debut which leaves you feeling like you’ve just eaten a five-course meal. She tackles too much—affirmative action, aesthetics, and that thing called love—through the eyes of too many (five, in fact), each with back stories that would occupy the better part of a novel. In her desire to emulate Forster, Smith adheres too strictly to his plotline. What could have been inspiration is simply replication...
...must stop before the surface goes from scratched to deeply bruised, which is when we are all sucked into a short-range timewarp and forced to watch “Mr. and Mrs. Smith?? on a triple-bill with “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Fantastic Four.” I would rather read Dr. Laura for five hours and then be whipped with a wet stalk of sugar cane by Lindsay Lohan after a five-day cabbage-only diet. If Hollywood bigwigs want to continue whining about decreasing box-office...