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...character is confused because the two women bombard him with images from the past about which his character knows nothing. He must play along, however, as he doesn't want to be found out as a jewel thief...
Such characters are out of balance, but they aren't grotesques. The best story of this impressive collection gives us the gallant last moments of a severely crippled, middle-aged white woman and her lover, a funny, bop-talking black thief. It is their loving last phone conversation, as they say goodbye before separately committing suicide. For a writer to pull this off utterly without mawkishness is astonishing. And jolting; what's common among mannerly short-story writers is to leave the reader, in a muted last paragraph, with a carefully polished pebble of irony. Jones leaves a chunk...
...says Weeks, "the tomb was pretty well gone over in ancient times." The archaeologists have tracked down a record of one of those robberies, which occurred in about 1150 B.C. A 3,000-year-old papyrus fragment housed in a museum in Turin, Italy, recounts the trial of a thief who was caught in the Valley of the Kings. He confessed under torture that he had broken into Ramesses II's tomb and then returned the next night to rob the tomb of Ramesses' children, which lay across the path. The absence of artifacts in the rubble above the floor...
...make him a Good Guy? Is David (Jesse Means II), the priapic minister, really a symbol of black male virility or a sexual predator? Is Dewain (Harold Perrineau Jr.), the gang leader who is arrested for stealing two bottles of beer, an avatar of resistance or merely a common thief...
...this is one mark of a movie star-even in her worst, or least, films. For example, French Kiss (co-produced by Ryan), which achieves a level of agreeable inanity only after a grating first hour or so. As a jilted fianca who hooks up with a Gallic jewel thief (Kevin Kline), Ryan cedes all the charm to Kline while remaining the center of attraction. Even in this wan caper, though, she is bold in her playing of an insecure woman who is so intense she seems dense. Her clear blue eyes widen in a perpetual double take...