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...Cinema: Paul Newman's glamour falsifies Nobody's Fool...
...Cinema: With a fetching performance in Little Women, teen...
...Cinema: Little Women is the year's unlikeliest triumph...
Never blame actors; their mission is to do whatever their director tells them. Blame Altman, whose mission here was to assemble some of the most glamorous performers in world cinema for a mass hazing, a humiliation on camera. He is like the scuzzy photographer played by Rea: he finds people eager to make unedifying fools of themselves, takes their picture, takes some money and calls it art. And he has done to his actresses what male fashion designers so often do to their models and customers: make beautiful women look ridiculous. Imitation is the sincerest form of parody...
...fair to Jodie Foster and her sisters in cinema that Hollywood makes so few movies starring women. In dollar terms, this gender myopia is defensible, since guy pictures do bigger business. This year, for example, all eight of the films that earned more than $100 million at the domestic box office are stories of "a man who ..." Or, in one case, "a male lion...