Tuesday, January 20, 2009

They love because clearly living

The Columbus Day dinner with Nancy Pelosi, Antonin Scalia, Frankie Valli and Rudy Giuliani was memorable for a sight gag The Italian prime minister accidentally tore off the top of the lectern during his toast. They love him because he is clearly living the life, and any film that starts with such happy excess has to become derailed quickly before we find our hero too smug, too clever, and too rich to engage our sympathy. Rapper Eminem has confessed he carried a gun during his years as a young hellraiser - after being taught how to shoot at the age of seven. This week they clock up their third week at number one with another 19517 units to help pay next weeks rent. My very first fitting with Beatrix (Aruna Pasztor, costume designer famous for her work on Alfie and Vanity Fair) was in my house. Heres a combustible spy thriller that wires Syriana to Three Days of the Condor, heats it with Patriot Act politics, and then lets Ridley Scott light the fuse.

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