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...simply the thoughtful and careful script based on Turow's novel that make this movie a success. Much of the credit belongs to the editors for their effective juxtaposition of flashbacks and present action, and placement of each successive scene...
Indeed, the New Kids are a paradigm of pop's renewed stress on success and salesmanship. At their appearances, vendors hawking New Kids merchandise will help pull in an estimated $400 million this year. Giant video screens keep the crowd engaged during intermission with New Kids multiple-choice trivia contests (Q.: Who is Jordan's favorite singer? A.: Frank Sinatra) and with repeated, insistent references to McDonald's, which has pitched in a bundle to sponsor the group's U.S. tour. "They're a very wholesome, all-American group that has the same kind of family values that McDonald...
...Kids are not at all defensive about being in-betweeners. Unlike their musical elders, who might fret about being corporately co-opted, these boys see sponsorship as just another welcome token of their sudden, lavish success. "Fans chasing me, McDonald's offering us endorsements -- to me, that's big," says Wahlberg, the group's offstage leader. "I mean, I came from food stamps and nothing. I'm not going to look at that and be, like, 'Oh, get out of here, McDonald's.' I'm like, 'You want to work with...
...part of the problem. In converting the story of Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford), a public prosecutor forced by circumstantial evidence and local political imperatives to stand trial for the murder of Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi), an upper-slutty colleague, Pakula seems overawed by the book's critical and popular success. Whatever its other virtues, Presumed Innocent was basically a page turner; the movie is a slow burner...
Like Madonna and Milli Vanilli, like Paula Abdul and, yes, even like Bart Simpson, the New Kids are a phenomenon whose unapologetic commerciality is part of their appeal. They are good movers and slick singers, and they drive their mostly preteen female fans into genteel frenzies. But their success can't be separated from their impact; it's part of the pop machine's new mystique. Is it real, or is it marketing...