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...HOMEGROWN COUNTRY STORYTELLER commences with Cousin Sarah's cork leg, then ramifies: she had a great-uncle whose daughter ran off with a trombone player, who had a half-sister who . . . T.R. Pearson's skilled and artful variant moves in great, loopy spirals of anecdote, so that every now and then the apparently aimless stagger of narration swirls briefly to within sight of the original, stated objective. In the case of CRY ME A RIVER (Henry Holt; $22), this is the murder of a cop in a Southern town, told bemusedly by one of his colleagues. This sixth novel...
...requisite number of times, often surprisingly. Their larger obligation, however, is not to the implausible plot but to their funky characters, and to the nice, wistful mood of the film. They all share a nostalgia for '60s idealism; even their nemesis (Ben Kingsley) operates out of a dark variant on those quixotic beliefs...
...audience chuckles through a variant of the Jack Tripper Misunderstanding Theme when Vinny first arrives at the jail. Stan assumes this newcomer is just another prison rapist--not an attorney with the power to prevent a trip to the electric chair--and consequently lambastes him. Stan is shocked when Vinny responds to his unappreciative welcome with such comments as: "I mean, it's your ass, not mine," and "I think you should be down on your fucking knees...
...moment, and then we'll talk about that promotion or that bonus or whether you're going to have a job tomorrow. Even a Senator, I should think, would see the crime in this. At best, it's sex for pay. At worst, it's a nonviolent variant of rape in which sex is extracted under threat of economic destruction...
...effectively combined cops and surfers (and grossed $40 million last summer), with Randa Haines' The Doctor (late summer's surprise hit), about an arrogant surgeon who becomes a befuddled cancer patient in his own hospital and as a result humanizes his practice. Says Bigelow, who directed a cleverly variant vampire movie (Near Dark) and one about a gun-loving policewoman (Blue Steel): "I like to make films that are provocative, that can rattle your cage." Haines, who also directed Children of a Lesser God, says, "I'm consistently interested in projects in which the core of the story is communication...