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...going through torture to entertain us. Maso: they are also torturing us with the whip of seductiveness and the clamps of suspense. In most films this unholy relationship is tacit; we suspend disbelief, forget our connivance in the covenant. The Game yanks this affair center screen and dares the viewer not only to think about it but also to feel it--feel creepy, feel scared, feel guilty...
Though it doesn't quite match Ang Lee's wonderful gift for rendering social conventions hilarious, "Shall We Dance?" is bound to tickle the most staid viewer. It makes abundant, admittedly effective use of stock comic devices and characters. Eriko Watanabe cuts a droll figure as the experienced but caustic and somewhat unattractive dancer whom Sugiyama agrees to partner in an amateur competition; Naoto Takenaka hams it up as a painfully self-conscious colleague who dons a wig and hurls himself with fiendish gusto into the rhumba; Sugiyama's two fellow dance-pupils--one short and hyper...
...view of the film unfairly pulls apart the flowing, organic whole of the piece. If the movie is advertised as Altman's return to the town of his youth, then there may be more than one viewer vaguely envying the director, whatever the criminal underworld depicted alongside the jazz. Down to the challenging ending--which opens up a valuable re-thinking of the characters--"Kansas City" provides an intelligent feast for the eyes--and the ears...
...when the images began to appear on mission control monitors. They were, by any measure, astounding: scrub plains without the scrub, prairie land without the prairie grass. The eye, schooled to scout such familiar terrain for equally familiar landmarks, scanned briefly for cactus until common sense reminded the viewer that there would be none. "The little engine that could," said Manning after the first clutch of pictures appeared, "did." Added Muirhead: "We've scored a major home run here...
...contain its own pollutants. But driving Tyson out of the ring for good at a time when boxing is desperately short of star power would be very bad for business. Even a diminished Tyson remains an invincible money magnet. The fight with Holyfield brought in a record 1.8 million viewer buys and $90 million in pay-per-view revenue for the cable channel Showtime. The previous record holder? Tyson's previous fight with Holyfield...