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Veronica Guerin emerges under unusual auspices. Its producer is ubiquitous uber-mogul Jerry Bruckheimer, its director Joel Schumacher, a Hollywood stalwart whose work ranges from grit (Tigerland) to glitz (Batman & Robin). Screenwriters Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donaghue are also Americans. Yet the film resists the tugs of Hollywood melodrama. It builds a pyramid of culpability--the street thugs who push the drugs; the middlemen who cover their malefactions with bluff charm ("We don't sell drugs," protests one, played by Ciaran Hinds, "we're just ordinary decent criminals"); and the top dog (Gerald McSorley, stern and scary as Gilligan...
Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people. Joel and Ethan Coen, having made a film whose title (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) was taken from a Preston Sturges movie, now launch a full, fond invasion of Sturges territory. In the tradition of The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story, this is a farce with chic repartee, devious twists and a cheerfully sardonic take on the human need for greed. Intolerable Cruelty sends moviegoers back to the '40s, when pretty people said witty things. It's the brothers' brightest, most accessible jape...
...Joel Stein wrote about the Detroit Tigers and their near-record-setting losing season [ESSAY, Sept. 29]. I don't know much about baseball, so you wouldn't think I'd care about the Tigers--but I do. Because to me, the team recalls summer nights at the old stadium and hot dogs and fireworks after the game. I don't care if they're the best team in the league or the worst. Statistics don't make baseball the national pastime; memories do. MOLLY SHANNON Southfield, Mich...
...Director Joel Schumacher’s latest movie, Veronica Guerin, is based upon on the life of the Sunday Independent reporter of the same name, a journalist whose investigations proved vital in the war against drugs in Dublin...
Edwards will speak at the Kirkland JCR at 5 p.m. on Monday before the IOP event, Treasurer Joel C. Washington ’05 said...