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During the film industry's traditional summer vacation from reality, "Lone Star" might be just enough to brings us, quite literally, back down to earth. Director John Sayles presents a skillfully woven tapestry of stories, part mystery and part cross-generational conflict. Beautiful camera work and several fine performances draw us effortlessly into the world and dusty history of a Texan town and of a sheriff searching for his father...
...MOVIES . . . LONE STAR: In life the past haunts us. In the movies it has become a throwaway line. No one seems to care anymore how characters reach the pretty pass in which the first reel finds them. No one seems to remember the power of history to grant coherence to chaotic experience. No one but John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer1s movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects, says TIME's Richard Schickel. There are no explosions here, just...
...orders a Coke and the other a diet Coke, one eats regular cream cheese, the other fat-free. What about when there is a lone soul in a large group who orders a CPK pizza with cheese, while the others asked for cheeseless. They might as well wear a hat on their head which says: "Just eat it!" It is increasingly uncomfortable for those who tend not to obsess over weight and fat to continue in their bliss, for surrounding them are growing masses who stare, assess and analyze every bit of food that enters the mouth. How unfortunate that...
Except of course that Jim Carey is a big psycho, a role in which he is all too convincing. Matthew Broderick does a fine if not spectacular job as the lone island of sanity in Carey's ocean of dementia, but Carey's seduction to the dark side of the force does not prove terribly moving. His portrayal of a character split between "Fatal Attraction" and "The Three Stooges" does not pull convincingly one way or another. Jim Carey does not, nor will he likely ever, move us to tears, and unfortunately as the Cable Guy he barely moves...
Firms such as Boise Cascade, United Brands, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Lone Star (a big cement company), as well as Coke, either opposed Helms-Burton quietly or ducked the issue. Observes Robert Muse, an international lawyer who represents Amstar, an American sugar company with $81 million in property claims in Cuba: "Helms-Burton does not have a lot of support among big American companies because it threatens to complicate their re-entry into Cuba as well as U.S.-Cuba relations after Castro...