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Kinski barely registers. In her early scenes with Snipes she is vulnerably cute, after which she just stands around looking hopelessly vacant. She is upstaged by Wen (who played June in The Joy Luck Club). Snipes and Wen have great chemistry, taking an argument about a dress and twisting it beautifully into a full-out tete-a-tete. Snipes' nuanced performance--for which he received the Best Actor Award at this year's Venice Film Festival--makes you wish that he would give up playing generic action heroes and return to more serious acting like that of his earlier work...
Snipes stars as Max Carlyle, a commercial director living in Los Angeles with his over-sexed wife Mimi (Ming-Na Wen) and two children. During a business trip to New York, he visits his best friend Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.), a performance artist stricken with AIDS, gets separated from his production team and somehow ends up stranded in the city with Karen (Nastassja Kinski), a beautiful rocket scientist (you heard me). After going to a Beethoven concert, flirting shamelessly at a jazz club and escaping a nearly fatal mugging, Karen and Max, surprise, surprise, end up in bed together. Snipes...
...frame: everything comes from the Chinese imperial collections as they developed over the centuries; thus what we see is the slowly changing profile of the highest court taste. And the third is that the museum's 650-page tome of a catalog, prepared under the supervision of Wen C. Fong, the Met's curator of Chinese art, is probably the best introduction to its subject in print...
...demand to choose their own leaders through a similar election or a plebiscite on China's communist system. The only thing the U.S. should do now is to safeguard the democratization of Taiwan. Sooner or later, the desire for more political freedom will prevail in mainland China. JENNIFER WEN Sugar Land, Texas...
Katherine T. Wen '99 subscribes to a method more traditional and accessible than Doom and prescription medication...