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Sounds dour, doesn't it? But Sweet Sixteen is not a gloomy picture. It's often slyly amusing. Liam, who manages a pizza shop, cottons on to a more lucrative delivery business: a side order of drugs. He has a friend, Pinball, who is comically, often stupidly, out of control and needs a lot of career guidance. Sometimes it's a touching film, especially in the scenes dealing with Liam's sister Chantelle (Annmarie Fulton), a single mom bravely struggling to raise her baby decently in an environment full of crime and beset by hopelessness...
...Sweet Sixteen may put viewers with a long memory in mind of Ken Loach's fine 1969 film Kes, about another troubled teen contending with a troubled life. It is similarly handsome and similarly lacking in the overt didacticism that has scored many of Loach's later films, not always to their advantage. Its ending will also remind viewers of Truffaut's The 400 Blows--a lonely lad standing on an empty shore, contemplating a young life gone wrong, a future full of bleak ambiguity. But that obvious reference somehow enhances Sweet Sixteen, unselfconsciously connecting it to an honorable...
Just such a corrective exercise took place last week at the Ministry of Industry. Forty top officials had gathered in a boardroom when Carney, the U.S. adviser, walked in, downed a glass of sweet tea and announced something unthinkable under Saddam's rule: a free election. Carney, a former ambassador to Sudan and Haiti, had discovered that the man the U.S. had put in charge, ex-deputy minister Ahmed Rashid Gailini, was disliked by many of his subordinates for his ties to Saddam's regime. Rather than dismiss Gailini, Carney had persuaded him to step down and put his name...
...group portrait paints the Yanks as both goats and heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both roles. Kahn is the author of The Boys of Summer--which Sports Illustrated named last year as the second greatest sports book of all time (behind A.J. Liebling's The Sweet Science)--and he has been covering the Yankees for 50 years. His prose is the quintessence of the newspaper school of sportswriting--he can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen, as it were. If you're wondering how that's done, consider his 18-word skewering...
Scholars of this minor comedy form will detect a blend of Pillow Talk (to humiliate prim decorator Doris, playboy Rock masquerades as a sweet-natured Texan) and Sex and the Single Girl (to humiliate prim sex-book author Natalie Wood, magazine writer Tony Curtis feigns being a frustrated husband seeking counseling). Now as then, the two leads must run the gamut of passion, rancor and against-their-wills romance--all in glam Manhattan penthouses (Barbara's digs were inspired by the How to Marry a Millionaire set), where the not-quite lovers swig martinis to the underscoring of wisecracking trombones...