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...equality (except at the box office), the hero-victim has tended to be male, and the affliction has been mental, as in Rain Man, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind. They're the movie equivalent of the orphan puppy that no one will adopt--except you, dear sensitive viewer...
...challenge for the makers of political weepies is to bring as much art, intelligence and passion to them as to any other film. Your challenge as a viewer is to make up your own mind and heart. And if you remain unmoved by all the Irish mist in a Ken Loach film, don't think you've hardened into a Darth Vader. Saying no to a weepie, of any wing, is nothing to cry about...
...same frame. When Jay-Z finally does arrive, he successfully anchors the song until Beyoncé brings it home with one last defiant turn on the dance floor. Unfortunately, the video sometimes falls flat. Technically, it moves too quickly between shots, leaving some scenes choppy and the viewer dizzy. The beginning set-up features Beyoncé lying suggestively in a pool, and doesn’t compliment the tempo of the song. Nor is it ever clear why Beyoncé would want to climb into the trunk of a Rolls Royce, as she does for a few awkward moments. Nevertheless...
...Soleil sur Marais” (1962), jittery zigzags of light serve as a topographical map, and mark a woman fully submerged just under the surface of the ocean. Because of the high contrast and abstraction of the photograph, the woman is, at first, hidden from the viewer. Discovering her amidst the jumble of bright squiggles becomes an act of undressing her. The water-as-clothing motif appears in several of the other photographs, and is part of the larger allegory of water-as-mother. Clergue’s nudes are not merely in the water, but are absorbed...
...Throughout the trial, Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald kept coming back to Hardball. Libby seemed a singularly obsessive viewer of the show. His exacting attention to how host Chris Matthews characterized the role of the Vice President in sending Wilson to Niger undermined the defense's case that Libby had too much on his mind to have really bothered to lie - or even to have remembered what exactly to lie about. They argued Libby had other preoccupations; the war, possible al-Qaeda attacks, the 27 national security topics and 13 terrorist threats that were in Libby's briefing book...