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...Kiefer Sutherland...
...youthful (maybe because he didn't have his tongue down the throat of an actress fifty years younger than him). There was the thankfully short amount of time Whoopi Goldberg actually spent onstage. There were those only-at-Oscar weirdnesses, like the brightly colored mime/harlequins prancing backstage, near Donald Sutherland and Glenn Close doing play-by-play from that wood-paneled Oscars sports-anchor desk...
...world-renowned American director, Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland), is trying to make a movie in Beijing's Forbidden City when he suffers a creative drought and can't even work out where to place the camera. He falls seriously ill, and his last wish, as he slips into a coma, is to have a "comedy funeral" in the Forbidden City. Accordingly, his cameraman YoYo (Ge You) markets the funeral as a globally televised event, auctioning ad space to Chinese companies. Huh? Precisely. Big Shot's Funeral, a comedic fable about the clash of cultures, isn't like anything...
...commercial filmmaker. Although Big Shot is his biggest project to date, this is not one of his more coherent efforts. He should either have explored the film-within-a-film theme more fully, or played for giggles; the two make discordant bedfellows. Characters drift from serious to incredibly silly. Sutherland shuffles around the Forbidden City, pontificating on Bernardo Bertolucci, on how to mix Western and Eastern cinematic culture and make the combination appeal to both audiences. Ge You delivers the movie's standout performance, full of shifting moods and emotions. But Rosamund Kwan, as Lucy, the go-between for Tyler...
...Even before the war made heroes out of CIA agents, this thriller was the talk of TV. Deservedly so: its pulse-pounding premise (a counterterrorist agent--Kiefer Sutherland, below--has 24 hours to stop an assassination), gimmick (each episode is one hour in real time) and look (a split screen is used to relate concurrent story lines) made its pilot the most exciting of the year. Some later episodes had a draggy, shaggy-dog quality, but at its best, 24 had us counting the seconds...