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With Fitzgibbons out of the hole, Dales had to settle for a double-bogey when his second shot landed on a patch of ice in a green-side sand trap. The rest of the way, though, Dales played unimpeachable golf...
...Tahoe, but she bristles at queries, about their private life. "Of course he lives with me. We eat at the same table." A body guard is close by for those occasions when crowds become "too pushy. You cannot imagine how people forget their manners. I've had fans trap me in elevators...
Well, I'm not planning on falling into that trap I'm not going to fund anyone who turns the Battle of Helm's Deep into nothing more than a Cowboys and Indians scene, complete with Gunsmoke music and Gandalf as John Wayne leading the rescue. Maybe that's all the book is, essentially, but Bakshi seems to exaggerate that which is formulaic and even trite in the books. Moreover, his animations are wooden and lazy -- groups of figures will stand without moving while a battle rages around them. The synch of the lips and sound falters and only...
...much of the narrative is provided by a chorus, playing medieval instruments. Luchini is more a suggestion of a knight than a knight himself. With a receding chin, concave chest, and dangling, half-open mouth, he looks as if he would be afraid to kill a mouse with a trap, much less joust with a man in armor. The sets are also symbolic, rather than realistic-sculptured trees, cardboard castles, painted skies-and they have the strange beauty of a Dali painting. But the beauty quickly palls. Rohmer's films have always been an acquired and sometimes peculiar taste...
Nikolai Gogol had a mind like a trap door. Anyone venturing on the deceptive surfaces of his works must be prepared to lose his footing at unexpected moments and be sent plummeting into radical alterations of consciousness. Realism shifts to fantasy; the prosaic turns mystical; solid citizens stumble unwittingly into topsy-turvy land...