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...movie, a postwestern in the style of Robert Altman's 1971 McCabe & Mrs. Miller, is elegiac in tone, for both the soon-to-be-late Jesse James and the genre he occupies. The silky cloud of steam from a train the boys are to rob instantly locates the movie in the mists of legend. Like Ford's 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Dominik's movie says, "Print the legend," but adds, see that the legend...
...about the third time? In the O.J. Simpson case--recalling his 1995 trial and O.J. 2, its 1997 civil sequel--it became nostalgia. As the Juice and his cronies stood accused of robbing a memorabilia collector at gunpoint, the coverage--O.J. 3: What Happens in Vegas--had the misty tone of a high school reunion. My, his daughter has grown! Doesn't his girlfriend look like Nicole? "A lot of these people I know from many years ago," said Dan Abrams on MSNBC almost wistfully...
...however, surprise Kellner, given the press's ongoing support for the McCanns. Nevertheless, he notes, "Even if you are reporting it in a sympathetic way, you are still saying they are suspects, and news of them being suspects swamps the sympathetic coverage." British readers may disagree with the tone of the coverage, or they may think the story is overplayed, but until the case is resolved in some fashion, the McCann media circus is here to stay...
...sent their best team to the Nevins Trophy in Kings Point, N.Y., where a consistent northwest wind on Saturday and a lighter northeast breeze on Sunday provided the backdrop for Harvard to sail to a third-place finish overall. In A-division, the Crimson set the tone thanks to the efforts of skipper Kovacs and senior crew Elyse Dolbec, who together compiled just 73 points all weekend, 22 better than the second-place team.“I can’t give enough compliments to Elyse,” Kovacs said. “We did well on Saturday...
...known for your sarcastic style on the air, and even being a little cranky. Where would you say that tone comes from...