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...Administration's recent disavowal of change is especially disturbing when one considers the importance of finding real solutions to the crime and violence which have spun out of control across this nation...
...recent strains of Hollywood retro-history: JFK in the Line of Fire. But A Perfect World, which Eastwood directed from John Lee Hancock's script, is not another dark fable about Camelot. The stage is smaller here, the concerns personal rather than political. This is an old- fashioned, nicely spun-out, two-handed character drama. It just takes the film a while to reveal who its main players are and how ambitious its agenda...
After the movie, the stars moved on to the Dixie Grill, a faux southern bar with big fish and stock-car racing signs, where the ensemble acting troupe spun its own live performances. Mandy Grunwald, sitting in the opening-night audience, got to see Carville, Stephanopoulos and Boorstin in Little Rock indulge in an eye-rolling exasperated riff at her expense as she tries to sell them on a campaign ad by speakerphone from Washington. "Were you guys embarrassed for Mandy to see you acting that way?" Stephanopoulos spun that one: "Not at all. It was James...
Campion has spun a fable as potently romantic as a Bronte tale. But The Piano is also deeply cinematic. It burrows into two essential obsessions of the oldest films: emotion conveyed without words, and the image of a man watching a woman. What is not traditional is that here the women are in charge, as heroine, star and director. The result is that what might have been art-house voyeurism becomes a wise sermon on the various motives for sex. Ada has sex with Stewart out of duty or pity. (The movie sees Stewart's pathos as well...
Sports fans, sportswriters and athletes are all involved in the fabrication of myth. Past contests, battles ingrained in athletic lore, become legendary over time. Usually, it takes many years and many remembered and enhanced details for one particular event to be spun into the fabric of sports legend...