Word: stalwartism
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Whereas Flags became a story of manufactured heroism, Letters is a poignant dirge for the defeated. In anticipation of the U.S. attack, Japanese soldiers have dug miles of tunnels to live in and fire from. But everyone, from the stalwart general (Ken Watanabe) on down, realizes that this anthill is to be a mass tomb. Waiting for an enemy with superior firepower, knowing you can't leave, knowing you can't win, knowing you will die--this is the tersest summary...
...movie, written by Eric Roth, recounts the history of the CIA from World War II through its involvement in the Bay of Pigs. It is told through the life of Edward Wilson, an agency stalwart loosely based on long-serving counterintelligence chief James Jesús Angleton, and tracks the price that a life of secrecy can exact. Despite the stellar cast - Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt and Alec Baldwin - it took De Niro, 63, and his producing partner Jane Rosenthal nearly eight years to get the film made. Although still not chatty, the star had quite...
...music icon MTV and travel-guide stalwart Frommer's have joined unlikely forces to create the MTV Guide series aimed at the young at heart and budget-challenged. The books are packed with tips on where to find the cheapest digs, where to eat well for less than $10, which bars offer complimentary food and where to find offbeat adventure sports like kayaking in Italy or surfing off Ireland's unsunny coast of Clare...
...rally around me, stalwart haters of artificiality. McMansion delenda est! Let us sow salt into the well-manicured lawns of these suburbanites, so that they will live without their lush Kentucky Bluegrass for a thousand years...
Crowe, despite his loutish rep, is forever surprising viewers by slipping snugly into the disparate characters he plays. This time he surprises by failing. Oh, he can do engaging as smartly as he does stalwart or tortured, but he gets sabotaged by the cloying script. Even before a long, agonizingly unfunny scene that Skinner spends at the bottom of an empty swimming pool, the film's desperate smile has turned into a rictus. Don't expect to be beguiled by A Good Year. That would be like trying to warm your hands at an artificial fireplace...