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CINEMA Muddled ambitions sink the comedy in Jack the Bear...
Thompson has that luck; she can bear the camera's scrutiny. Her face is common sense emitting star quality, wit raised to beauty. Her bright eyes and ironic smile suggest an intelligence of the cultivated heart -- what used to be called breeding. No wonder six of Thompson's eight feature films are period pieces, closer in spirit to the West End stage than to the West Coast sound stage. She is comfortable as Katherine in Branagh's Henry V or as Beatrice in his new film Much Ado About Nothing, as a 1930s English domestic in Remains...
TITLE: JACK THE BEAR...
...nowhere and goes nowhere interesting. But that's the way of this film. The possibly admirable intention is to avoid the false good cheer of the typical family drama. But it has been replaced by the equally false gloominess that often passes for seriousness in Hollywood. Jack the Bear plays as if Maxim Gorky had for some reason been asked to try his hand at a sitcom...
...purpose of the forum is not to address any particular controversies, but rather to address some ques- tions about free speech in a university setting and whether the University as a university has a point of view," he said. "The questions relating to free speech in the University setting bear on what people are thinking about, but at the same time we don't want to [focus] on specific controversies...