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Barkley has always had a cast-iron wit. After throwing a barfly through a plate-glass window in 1997, he was asked whether he had any regrets. Barkley replied, "I regret that we were on the first floor." Now he's verbally tossing NBA players through glass. Unlike other analysts, he refuses to ignore the obvious for the sake of stroking egos. When Atlanta Hawks guard Jacque Vaughn opened the season with an astonishing 23 consecutive missed shots, Barkley brought a Bible to the set and held an impromptu "Pray for Jacque" revival. Informed live that Vaughn...
...younger audience. He turned down the 1997 President-in-peril action film Air Force One, for example, because "it felt like it was approaching a cartoon." (Harrison Ford took the job, and the picture earned $300 million worldwide.) Redford says that when reading scripts these days, he misses "wit and subtlety. You either bring the audience in or you go out there and hammer them in the face to get their attention. That seems to be the general state of things. That's just not as appealing to me." He can get grouchy when discussing the film business--a "chickens...
...flaws. It is quite obvious that the Columbus and screenwriter Steve Kloves are trying to squeeze in as much expository information about the series as possible, but the format of the strict narrative fails to capture the imagination and soul of Rowling’s literary wit and vision. Characters that prove to play essential roles in the stories to follow are often carelessly inserted, solely for the purpose of displaying them on-screen, if only for a few minutes each. Admittedly, part of the problem is the book itself; Sorcerer’s Stone was created as the first...
...Professor McGonagall, and Richard Harris rasps his way through his role as Professor Dumbledore. Other famous stars only make brief appearances: John Cleese hams it up appropriately as Nearly-Headless Nick, Julie Waters is onscreen for two seconds as Ron’s mom, John Hurt sparkles with appropriate wit and gravity as the wand-seller Mr. Ollivander and Warwick Davis (Willow) teaches levitation as Professor Flitwick...
...Western canon and the weight of his own intellectual superiority, Hitchens’ book would be worth reading even if all he had were the trappings of a superb stylist—an obvious delight in the English language with which to cast his scrutiny, and a spiked wit that sometimes cuts at the expense of a proportionate level of intensity. In fact, he takes pride in obsessively driving points home, devoting an entire chapter in this slim volume to the art of being considered boring in pursuit of one’s ideals...