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...Mullen is one of those bucaneer billionaires who, like the robber barons of yore, command the outraged concern of economic moralists and the titillated attention of the media, ever eager to gossip about the rich and infamous. Think Donald Trump or Bill Gates, or some heroically glamorized combination of the two--after all, Mel Gibson plays Tom in Ransom--and you've got the good idea animating this movie...
Lots of movies, it turns out. In the first act we meet four boys growing up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. They talk tough, engage in petty crime and swim in the river like the Dead End Kids of yore. They play basketball under the tutelage of a kindly priest, just like the gang in Angels with Dirty Faces, only with Robert De Niro playing the Pat O'Brien part...
...best results possible." That sounds innocuous enough. But the piercing memories of the past, like the injuries that increasingly plague him with age, are clearly visible, etched into his face when he competes. He is still great, but he can no longer overpower the field with the effortlessness of yore. Barcelona changed that. Which, in a way, may not be such a bad thing. Before, Bubka was godlike; now he is all too human, and the battle he faces against himself in July imbues him with a mortality that he seemed to lack before. In the process, it restores dimensions...
Altman's movie won't be released for two months, but the sound track is already here, on a just released Verve CD. As the jazzmen of yore might've said, it's a gas. The mix of 21 musicians includes veteran players whose stylistic roots go back to Kansas City and beyond--alto saxophonist David ("Fathead") Newman Jr., drummer Victor Lewis--and younger stars who actually seem to enjoy paying their respects to tradition--tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman, guitarist Mark Whitfield, bassist Christian McBride. On track after track, soloists of different generations find a common groove. On Froggy Bottom...
...think the market for movies about Scottish freedom fighters of yore would be relatively inelastic. Once a decade ought to fill such need as we have for tallish tales about brawny, if disheveled, folk heroes rallying the clans against the English interlopers. But here comes Mel Gibson's Braveheart, recounting the revolutionary doings of myth-enshrouded William Wallace in the 13th century, while Rob Roy, featuring Liam Neeson as the legendary 17th century freedom fighter, is still in the theaters. One has to suspect that this curious coincidence is inspired less by a sudden Hollywood interest in the murkier realms...