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...just shows up?his face scarred, his hair cut in a close-cropped Caesar?and coasts through yet another hour of live before-a-studio-audience television trash. Yet, despite his apparent indifference, he carries the show, not through arch commentary or the Japanese equivalent of Cowardesque wit, but by sheer force of his Beat-ness...
...nicely attuned to Harris' depiction of evil, of the strength and seduction in depravity. Each gargoyle gets his due: greedy detective Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini), the venal official Krendler (Ray Liotta). Even Mason Verger, the pedophile with the skinless face (Gary Oldman, under a layer of Toussaud wax), brings wit to his lurid vengefulness. All the actors do expert turns. And Moore makes a fine, severe Clarice. As Lecter consumes his victims, so Clarice assumes their pain until her face becomes a steel mask, her quest a curse. Clarice's empathy is that of the dead grieving for the dead...
...Indian, Crimean and French colleagues to determine how the Florida secretary of state is or is not similar to Teresa, Florence or St. Joan. As for Rosa Parks, Katherine Harris can get in line. Because people these days can't stop comparing themselves to Parks. To wit...
Cassandra, as our friends and my relatives are always eager to point out, is far better looking than I, and would certainly get an 8 or 9. Then we'd all learn a valuable lesson about vanity, shallowness and the fact that I, through wit and charm alone, landed a smoking-hot girlfriend...
...true, two of the most noticeable things about Shira were her love of singing and her smile and laughter. Shira would brighten up any room she was in and make everyone around her happy. She could talk you into doing anything with her charm and her wit and, of course, her huge smile and big eyes...