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...should happen every summer," says the director who practically invented the blockbuster with Jaws in 1975. "We should be so lucky. You go to these multiplexes, and you see Spider-Man. Then you see Y Tu Mama Tambien playing next door. A hit movie puts people in a movie mood." Audiences will notice that this is Spielberg's edgiest action movie yet. They will also see that his talent for blending extraordinary visions with everyday familiarity remains intact. Twenty years ago, he showed us an extraterrestrial with a taste for Reese's Pieces. This summer Cruise's 21st century crime...
...holding cells and why, and to make sure his police are doing their job. He has made a policy of doling out groceries to cops as a way of curbing their temptation to elicit bribes, but that doesn't mean he's always in a benevolent mood. When he finds a cop drunk on duty, Duterte admits, he personally doles out a thrashing...
...quitting all his posts and was escorted offstage. The 76-year-old had spent the convention bemoaning the laziness of the country's Malay population, which he's tried to bootstrap into prosperity for two decades. Luckily, his party rejected the resignation. Of course, UMNO needs Mahathir, fair mood or foul: the PM is expected to call a general election next year and without the old man, the party cadre could be weeping...
...Wayburn noted, "was the first American tap dancer to consciously employ the full resources of his arms, hands and torso for visual ornamentation." Then he integrated ballet and ballroom dance into his style. He wasn't grounded, in the old tap fashion; he floated, soared like Nijinsky. The mood of his dances also went beyond the comic energy of tap; his were stories of romance won and lost. Add to this his gorgeous poise and his teeming ingenuity as a choreographer (he was, essentially, the author of his dances) and you have a snapshot of dancing Fred...
...with the metaphorical. Anything goes with comix. It's partly what makes them special. Freed from literal representation, the artist's only obligation is to meaning and David B. takes full advantage of this. People grow and shrink, or occasionally appear as animals. Backgrounds become patterns that reflect the mood of the scene rather than the location. One remarkable panel shows Jean-Christofe's head surrounded by a knot of tubes and two tiny doctors plugging them into his skull. Demons, monsters and ghosts become an integral part of the narrative. Jean-Christofe often has a snake-like creature running...