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MOVIES . . . TIN...
...know. But I do wonder where this leaves us, once the Republicans speed out of town with red, white and blue bunting trailing behind them like tin cans on the car of a newly-married couple. Perhaps back where we started, if a little poorer. Perhaps leaps and bounds more prominent in America and the world than before. Or perhaps a little wiser but not well. It seems the fame could go to our heads, leaving a taste of glamour in our mouths that will sour the morning after Bob Dole's acceptance speech. It seems we're taking ourselves...
...death throes," and streets are "rivers of flame." Rosso, at a difficult moment, thinks "the buck stops here." No, the reader reflects, it was Harry Truman who thought that. Rosso needs a dialogue coach, and his author, alas for what otherwise is an effective novel, needs treatment for tin-ear disease...
...couple of decades ago, Tin Pan Alley moved to the South and changed its name to Nashville. There the division of musical labor still largely applied: singers sang and songwriters wrote. In the past few years one distinct author's voice has emerged from the throats of Martina McBride (Independence Day), Patty Loveless (You Don't Even Know Who I Am) and Trisha Yearwood (On a Bus to St. Cloud). The composer is Gretchen Peters, and her own first album, The Secret of Life (Imprint), offers 10 fresh reasons to elect her to the country songwriter's Hall of Fame...
KINGPIN (July 12). One of three summer sport comedies, along with Eddie (Whoopi Goldberg as coach of the New York Knicks) and Tin Cup (Kevin Costner as a golfer). This one could be the Color of Money of bowling--former pro Woody Harrelson recruits Amish phenom Randy Quaid for a big payday. But the Farrelly brothers (Dumb & Dumber) ain't Scorsese. For a start, they have a fascination for prosthetic-hand gags; there are nine, just in the trailer. Rude and obvious. We laughed nine times...