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...York City's airports "lined up like Rockettes." As long as Glen and Les Charles' script focuses on the controllers' wayward bravado, the film has the tang of an old Howard Hawks film about tough guys under pressure. But like its frazzled hero, Nick (John Cusack), this ambitious, well-cast movie goes haywire when Nick's rivalry with psycho-genius Billy Bob Thornton turns into a game of sexual oneupsmanship. Tin tailspins into silliness and never regains its flight pattern...
...Einstein, Edward Hightower was well-cast as the slightly naive, thoughtful Einstein. As the more flamboyant Picasso, Shawn Elinoff, 1996 Artist-in-Residence for the Hyperion Shakespeare Company, shone: the Picasso he embodied was complex, filled with bitterness, insecurity and lust but most of all, a passion for his artistic vision...
...formidable obstacle posed by the script did not completely hinder director Bridger McGaw '97 respectable show. Well-cast as Wallace, Jed Silverstein gave a seasoned and (at rare moments) touching perfromance. With a mix of stand-up comic swagger and adolescent noxiousness, Silverstein breathed life into Wallace's character and kept him marvelously alive throughout. Becca Lowenhaupt is memorable as the wise, heavily-accented Jewish grandmother, a stereotype people never seem to grow tired...
...home team in this movie has the shambling air of good-natured, slightly out-of-it sandlotters. Bishop (a well-cast Robert Redford) is a sometime merry prankster, still on the run for computer crimes he committed in the '60s; he now heads a marginal enterprise that does legalized breaking and entering designed to test corporate security systems. His associates include a defrocked cia operative (Sidney Poitier); a gentle paranoid (Dan Aykroyd) who believes the same group that killed Jack Kennedy also framed Pete Rose; a blind computer whiz (David Strathairn) whose keyboard -- and Playboy -- are in Braille...
Venue (Louisiana) and history (a corrupt past) evoke the Long family; sexual carelessness mixed with liberal idealism recalls the Kennedys. Together these touches give the tale of the Fowler clan of STORYVILLE a certain vibrancy. The story line -- in which the family scion (a well-cast James Spader) runs for Congress, investigates a murder in which he could be implicated and sorts out the circumstances surrounding his father's suicide -- is twisty and full of colorful characters and weird behavior. Director Mark Frost, co-creator of Twin Peaks, has made a good-looking movie, combining intellectual ambition with darkly glamorous...