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...mean the same thing. Despite the goofiness of it all, there is no denying here in these two male-oriented porno/home-shopping sites, we have an essential principle of noir--the conflict between the rough and the pleasant, between grit and gloss. It is a symbolic battle between the seedy underworld and the conventions of society, a clash between the deviant and the traditional. Do real heroes wear leather or lace...
...face of Russian reform has a new blemish -- a pustule, in fact. The country's third-largest city, Nizhni Novgorod, yesterday elected as its mayor Andrei Klimentyev -- a multimillionaire known in the underworld as "The Pustule.? Klimentyev has done two jail terms for fraud, and currently faces a number of other criminal charges...
Step back: Jackie Brown is fundamentally a boring movie, which has to be bought into to be enjoyed or believed. The devices that worked in the past are now really straining under the pop culture pressure and expectations: the tangled slice-of-underworld-life plots, time sequence double-takes, vintage insta-cool sound track, and all the rest are present--but sloppy and unsatisfying. Fundamentally, Tarantino has failed to make things click; the elements fizzling in a way reminiscent of the almost-but-not-quite of Mike Leigh's Career Girls...
...point is not that Tarantino really works for the music industry, but that the way in which he's selling us his interests is no longer interesting. His vividly imagined, detailed criminal underworld, with a language all its own, was what helped hold together the short-attention-span oddities of his first two endeavors. Now, shocking devices foisted upon this movie's stultifyingly paced plot and Grier's well-intentioned yet boring performance seem instantly tired. At one point, the "sudden shoot" gimmick--witness Tim Roth's character in Reservoir Dogs, or Pulp Fiction's poor victim of Vincent Vega...
...Underworld (Scribner) Despite its title, Don DeLillo's 11th and most ambitious novel is not about organized crime. DeLillo takes on nothing less ambitious than the buried life of the cold war, the specter of nuclear annihilation as experienced by a large group of vividly rendered characters. The story begins with Bobby Thomson's famous home run in 1951 and moves back and forth over the following four decades, showing how we all got here from there...