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...oversimplify just a tad, the nods to Hong Kong culture are fun, the Indian bits much less so. Yuan, who's worked mostly in the States, has a lovely gravity otherwise missing from the enterprise. And it's always great to see Liu, who bounded onto the Hong Kong screen as the head-shaved star of such '70s action classics as Challenge of the Masters and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin; his lingering impact in these roles led ex-fanboy Quentin Tarantino to cast him as a mob potentate in Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and as the white-bearded...
...excellent TV series); to Ennio De Concini, 84, a screenwriter for nearly 60 years in the Italian film industry, and an Oscar-winner for the sublimely misanthropic Divorce Italian Style; and to Golden Age TV dramatists Abby Mann, 80 (Judgment at Nuremberg), William Gibson, 94 (The Miracle Worker) and Tad Mosel, 86, who later wrote Up the Down Staircase for director Robert Mulligan, and whose Broadway adaptation of TIME movie critic James Agee's memoir All the Way Home won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize...
...Quinn has been more than a tad outspoken since U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's office filed the 76-page complaint last Tuesday. At various times, he has said that "Illinois is in crisis" and that "when you have all five constitutional officers, when you have members of Congress, when you have the U.S. Senator from Illinois, Richard Durbin, when you have the President-elect urging you to step aside, I think that's about as high...
...movie revs up to the gotcha moment when Frost traps Nixon into acknowledging his Watergate crimes and apologizing to the country. The reality is a tad more ambiguous. Frost is magnificent when, having pressed Nixon to say he made more than mistakes, Nixon asks him what word he would suggest. He tosses his clipboard aside and presents a three-count indictment - still a thrilling TV frisson. Nixon does say he let the country down, but couches his confession is so many subordinate clauses that he could leave the ring believing Frost's knockout was only technical. If the exchange lacks...
Noting that Chinese Democracy is a tad overproduced is like pointing out that The Dark Knight is a little gloomy. It doesn't require a lot of critical expertise. But nearly every arrangement has been manipulated and fussed with until the music feels encased in Lucite. Appetite for Destruction, Guns N' Roses' 1987 debut, had a brutish confidence - it sounded like five sharpened instruments and lots of open space. That Guns N' Roses was a band; this incarnation is a whole zip code. On some tracks, Rose has five guitarists soloing and jamming to fill every cranny, but the result...