Word: tarantula
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...mortal sin. In the middle of the single most famous shot in the Kelly oeuvre - from "Singin? in the Rain," when Gene is whirls on the rain-drenched street and the camera cranes back and up - Trachtenberg cuts to a talking head. Unforgivable! Hey, Joe, get me a tarantula...
...incomparable mixture of Cuban and North American impulses. Trueba reels in close on his mammoth hands, as they span octaves and meld with the piano's keys in ponderous strokes. Trueba then cuts to a low angle shot down the length of the keyboard as Chucho's hands leap tarantula-like over one another in a frenetic flurry of shaking intensity. His long, hound-dog face remains neutral, almost sullen, (ironically so) in the face of the energy put into his playing. Chucho then settles down again into his previous mode, with a wry smirk to share his musical joke...
...north of Philadelphia. Arrayed on tray-size boards and more than 20 6-ft.-tall racks are some 50,000 living spiders representing dozens of species: sleek, lacquered western black widows, hairy fishing spiders, palm-size Gramostola spatulata from Chile, even a fist-size, cocoa-brown African king baboon tarantula...
...Merck is marketing a blood thinner based on the venom of the deadly saw-scaled viper. A protein from another Asian pit viper is being studied because it appears to inhibit the spread of melanoma cells, and a compound called SNX-482 from the venom of the Cameroon red tarantula may lead to new treatments for neurological disorders...
...really blame the actors for the failure of a raft of screenwriters to provide them with even vaguely funny lines. They were doubtless too busy helping invent the film's visual effects, which most prominently include the gigantic mechanical tarantula with which Loveless hopes to induce a post-Civil War U.S. to surrender its sovereignty to him. But like men in frocks or the doctor's steam-driven wheelchair, it is just a sight gag--a one-shot deal out of which you cannot build intricately sustained comedy. The movie is loaded with this junk, but it has no authentic...