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...bring him down. This time it wasn't just the attack ads on TV or the sight of "neutral" Newt Gingrich describing a central element of the Forbes flat-tax plan as "nonsense." Forbes saw something more sinister at work, which made him mad enough to improvise in mid-script. "The dinosaurs," he told TIME, "are closing ranks." The other campaigns, he charged last Friday, "are making anonymous calls and sending anonymous mailings distorting my record on abortion, gays in the military and Social Security." While he wouldn't name names, his campaign manager Bill Dal Col described an unholy...
...more consistent and successful than Dole at keeping his message clear and upbeat and letting the faceless announcers in the TV commercials do the dirty work. On the record, off the record, on deep background, he and his aides recite their lines without wavering one word from the script...
...turned into a floating secondary school. He's the sort of father figure these chinless wonders have never had--stern but caring, and at one with the winds and the waves. Also, he seems to have the ability to tell them apart, a matter on which Todd Robinson's script--not to mention the casting director--is not very helpful. Sheldon's promise is that after a year of crewing with him, all the nonsense will be knocked out of them...
Panahi, formerly an assistant to Iran's master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (who did the script for The White Balloon), labors under a far more censorious burden than any Hollywood director. Yet his sly comedy is wonderfully open to life's coincidences and consequences; it shows an uncondescending interest in children even as it is alert to their gamin guile. His film deserves viewers, supporters--perhaps even a statuette...
...cast does a great job with their roles, even if they are shamed by their lines. The boys are good actors, especially Getty as the angry rough-and-tumble greaser. Scott Wolf does an excellent Tom Cruise imitation. And Jeff Bridges is a perfect father figure. Too perfect. The script sinks any hopes the characters had of being deep or moving. Todd Robinson, the screen writer, is living proof anyone can get a job in Hollywood. The script is trite ("Oh, the power of the wind!") and too ambitious ("Today I finally understand Homer: the journey's the thing...