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...CHUNG: There are few topics that film critics enjoy discussing more than the Role of the Film Critic. The argument is typically framed as a battle between the audience and the critic, as if their interests somehow diverge as they enter the movie theatre. The debate often starts over a single movie; a filmgoer will watch a movie that they loathe, notice a critical consensus surrounding it and redirect their animosity towards the “out-of-touch” critics. The critics will respond in kind with an admonition of the masses’ susceptibility to Big Hollywood...
...kidnapping plot is incoherent. Somehow it involves a shadowy secret agency of corrupt cops and villainous baby’s mamas, but their interaction with the actual kidnapping is never clear. Pita’s mother has hysterics that belong in a Mystic River, not this profoundly reserved effort: she quickly becomes no more than annoying. Why is unfazeable do-gooder journalist Mariana (Rachel Ticotin) so well-connected, and why don’t some of the uber-powerful villains follow through on their threats against her? Why is Scott Free productions fixture Giancarlo Giannini so damn cool as Mariana?...
What are the origins of these rumors? There are at least two; first, the wishes of many Americans that the war would somehow end, and second, the fine, Italian hand of the Axis propagandists. The coincidence of MacLeish's statement and the rise in peace rumors is suggestive to say the least. But Axis propaganda always works hand in hand with our own wishes and fears, so that many of these rumors are no doubt nourished by our sentiments even if planted by the Axis...
Looking back over delay the Library has encountered mainly because of the choice of an urban location, it is easy to speculate that the Library would have been better off in a suburban setting, with plenty of parking and picnic grounds. Yet somehow, isolating Kennedy away from people's lives, making the Library a day-trip into the country, would be a less fitting memorial than a complex situated in Cambridge...
What is it about California? Somehow the land of movie-star Governors has managed to get people excited about municipal bonds--those investment workhorses that pay for new schools and sewers and earn you tax-free income all at the same time. The big show in the muni market this year is the Golden State's $15 billion offering, the largest in the nation's history and the presumptive first step in curing California's severe fiscal woes...