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...action is to straddle the thin line of hip irony and ride it until it breaks. The early scenes of BW2 are entirely self-aware and play like a wicked little horror satire, from the inspired opening montage to, even better, a group of awestruck foreign tourists that stare at the trees with wide-eyed wonder while babbling about Coffin Rock and little stick figures. These are the glimmers of the film I dearly wish Berlinger decided to pursue. Instead, he has his troupe camp out in the woods and, after a night of drunken revelry, awake to find their...
...Yankee, Andy Pettitte, would, when his turn came, stare down the same tunnel with a look of smoldering Sicilian sanpaku. He looked like Rudolph Valentino playing a dark, wordless, dangerous loverboy. Valentino beat Winters. Mike Piazza flied out at exactly the stroke of midnight, and the Yankees took the World Series in five games...
...Amid all the noise and show business is the truth. Tulia is a town with a deep racial divide, and only now is the white majority of being forced to stare into it. It's hard to see anything, though, with the spotlight shining so bright and hot. And that's the way it is in Hollywood. Hooray...
...true expression of the individuals she examines, reaching an immediate confrontation with her subjects. One of her last images, "Hartley and Andrew" (1983), depicts her son and grandson. Both father and child are outlined in blue, as was Neel's habit at the time; seated on a stool, they stare not out, but into the viewer. Background is eliminated or, rather, Neel chooses the gessoed canvas for her background, as she does in many of these late works. This is the ultimate demonstration of self-confidence: Neel lets her sitters emerge from the raw canvas, sometimes leaving large amounts...
...sisters are, to put it simply, gorgeous. Movie-star gorgeous. Stab-your-friend-in-the-back-for-their-smile gorgeous. And, yes, buy-their-assembly-line-trash-music gorgeous. Fight the impulse; if you must gaze at the Corrs, buy a poster, not their album. It's easier to stare at them when that bad pop music isn't distracting you anyhow...