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...profession is a car crash, you understand the abundance of attitude that has made Street one of the dominant personalities in skiing for much of the past decade. The tart-tongued confidence that has both alienated fellow skiers and helped earn lucrative endorsements from the likes of Nike and Chap Stick was forged during her childhood in tiny Triumph, Idaho (pop. 50). Her hippie parents didn't even give her a name until she was three, when they asked what she thought of Picabo - pronounced "peekaboo," like her favorite game - a name her mother recalled from a road sign...
...course, the back story is different. Rana's marriage to Kareem was arranged during a visit to the U.S. when she was 21. Engagement followed their second meeting; "he looked like a good chap," she says, laughing. She frames her American experience as a shedding of limiting Indian assumptions for a liberating Islamic understanding. Her upbringing taught women "to take care of our husbands." But as she studied the Koran with several (female) teachers here, "I learned more and more about my rights as a woman. I don't do the housework now because I have...
Were it not for Thornton's brilliantly whiny portrayal of a man who knows too much medicine for his own good, Troy Garity (Jane Fonda's kid) might have stolen the picture. He plays the bandits' wheelman, a none-too-bright chap who dreams of becoming a stunt man and occasionally practices the craft by setting fire to himself. He's terrific, but finally Bandits works as a sweetly loony ensemble piece, a sort of cracked romance that's typical of director Barry Levinson at his shrewd but unpretentious best...
WHAT IT'S ABOUT The eponymous deus ex machina (Sergi Lopez), who cheerfully greets a hard-pressed chap named Michel (Laurent Lucas) in the men's room of a highway rest stop. Harry claims they were at school together. Michel can't recall him, but he lets him into his life anyway. And why not? He has a miserable job, a sarcastic wife, three whining daughters and an auto that lacks air conditioning. Harry has mysterious amounts of time and money to lavish on them. Michel suddenly gets a new car, his grasping parents soon disappear, and the rest...
...pleasant chap, but so schlumpfy and insecure that, when Evelyn calls him "gallant," he snaps back, "Which is medieval for 'loser.'" He needs a makeover. So at her urging, or to please her, Adam remakes himself. He cuts his hair, pumps up, slims down, stops biting his nails, gets contact lenses, even a nose job. He has her initials (E.A.T.) tattooed on his groin. He sees himself in the mirror of her appraising eyes; he wants to be a thing worthy of her love, as she already is of his. And she can't help being impressed: "I gave...