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...acknowledgment that her privileged life was based on willed blindness, that her future is as an emotional desaparecido. Hers is a performance that one knows will not be forgotten, much as one would like to try to erase it, and all that it stands for, from memory. --By Richard Schickel...
...better judgment. The ritual this time celebrates only cynicism and, perhaps, star egotism. In Rocky IV, the underdog is the noise-mauled audience, and one can only hope that it will come off the canvas and take a hike. Or better still, refuse the rematch. --By Richard Schickel...
...theatrical style has almost nothing to do with the craft of movie acting will probably not harm her cause: academy members traditionally like to see what they are voting for. The irony is that it is still not enough to fill out Foote's essentially empty drama. --By Richard Schickel...
...play, a Yank says to a British official that 9/11 forever changed America. Yes, he replies, it made it more stupid. Maybe so. But something more than stupidity made the Iraq tragedy. About what that might be, David Hare, trafficker in caricature, hasn't a clue. --By Richard Schickel...
...relatively modest failures. But watching Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, we realize we're not smart enough, attentive enough or sufficiently lacking in greed to penetrate the next great fraud when it rolls down--not if its masters truly believe in it and keep beaming. --By Richard Schickel...