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...plays an aged Nazi, living incognito in California, who is forced into an uneasy alliance with a curious teenager. McKellen is the soul of pained grace in one film, the spirit of caged evil in the other; but both reveal an actor totally at ease with the camera's stare. Forget, for a second, the march of teen thesps from the WB to the big screen. Ian McKellen is a star of the future. When: Gods and Monsters at the New York Film Festival, then in theaters Nov. 4; Apt Pupil...
...some prime acting by Angela Bassett in How Stella Got Her Groove Back. She emits her patented hot-coals stare, fondles an engagement-ring box with sweet subtlety, sheds urgent, persuasive tears at sexual climax. She smolders and glows--just what's needed as the heroine of a sudsy upscale romance. But Bassett doesn't need a camera to cue her glamorous art. She can give an Oscar-worthy performance sitting across from a journalist in a suite at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel...
...Bassett years ago. "You could see the warmth coming from the heart and straight out the eyes," she recalls. "But I've had the other happen too. Not mean, exactly, but, 'Hi, how're you doing?'" Instantly, the room temperature drops to arctic levels as Bassett pretends to stare a hole through someone talking to her. "Then, after I became known, it was, 'Oh, I love you.'" And she swoops down from the chair, practically to her knees, in a deft satire of sycophancy. Drama, pain, comedy--Acting...
...than when she was silent), they all contemplate the purpose of one's existence and the use of fighting for beliefs in a world that, ultimately, leaves almost all of its inhabitants asking, "What is to be done?" Leaving that question hanging in the air, Amblad, Siemens and Shapiro stare at the audience for a good while before leaving the stage, and thus ending the play. To be smacked in the face with such despondency--and the proof that it is unfortunately universal--leaves a bitter taste at the end of the otherwise absurdly delightful Slavs!. But what is truly...
...said virtually nothing about the showdown except to acknowledge for the first time that Kendall had stepped up the delicate process of ensuring "the grand jury gets the information it needs." In other words, Clinton must soon decide whether to change course and capitulate to Starr's demands or stare him down in a constitutional battle that could be a short route to impeachment proceedings...