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Dutch was a postmodern stunt that dumbfounded most critics. It also left a radioactive glow around the edges of Morris' reputation. Two years later, Theodore Rex offers Morris the chance to redeem himself by returning to the field of his first triumph. And let the record show that at no point in this book does Morris introduce himself into a subplot of the action. On the mid-September day in 1901 when Vice President Roosevelt gets word that President William McKinley has succumbed to an assassin's bullet, Morris isn't the messenger who brings the telegram. When Teddy plots...
Were it not for Thornton's brilliantly whiny portrayal of a man who knows too much medicine for his own good, Troy Garity (Jane Fonda's kid) might have stolen the picture. He plays the bandits' wheelman, a none-too-bright chap who dreams of becoming a stunt man and occasionally practices the craft by setting fire to himself. He's terrific, but finally Bandits works as a sweetly loony ensemble piece, a sort of cracked romance that's typical of director Barry Levinson at his shrewd but unpretentious best...
...surprisingly, it was al Qaeda that contacted CNN, rather than vice versa. The network was asked to submit questions for bin Laden via an al Qaeda representative who approached Al Jezeera - a savvy media stunt in light of the White House's entreaties to the networks to avoid rebroadcasting the bin Laden infomercials periodically carried on the Qatari network. (The media criticism of those broadcasts, after all, would include the fact that they are taped speeches without any questions from journalists. Now al Qaeda is trying to play the game by taking questions.) CNN has indicated that it feels...
Before The Crimson piles on more praise of President George W. Bush’s compassion for the starving in Afghanistan (Editorial, “Just the Beginning, Oct. 9), they should critically examine whether his food-drop publicity stunt even remotely addresses the actual problem...
...Fast-forward to Jang's latest project, Resurrection of the Little Match Girl, a big-budget cyberfantasy that he's shooting in the southeast port city of Pusan. On location there isn't a whip or handheld camera in sight. A sleek stunt team from Hong Kong bustles about, fine-tuning a barroom shoot-out featuring a gunslinging, transgender Chinese starlet. You can afford that with a $5.5 million budget, which makes this Korea's priciest film production of all time. Forget the art-house crowd. This time Jang is worried about pleasing his investors and drumming up big ticket...