Avoid ‘Tourist’ as your movie destination – Fri, 10 Dec 2010 PST

Avoid ‘Tourist’ as your movie destination - Fri, 10 Dec 2010 PST

In “The Tourist,” Johnny Depp is asked to play a bland American everyman, in the fashion of Cary Grant in “North by Northwest” or Jimmy Stewart in “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” That’s a bit like asking Michael Bolton to play death metal or Jackson Pollock to paint inside the lines. Depp adopts an affected, unplaceable accent and contorts his face into whimsical-weirdo expressions â€" the same ones ...

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When 'gods' bleed

President Obama has often been compared, with some justification, to a fic tional self-made man -- Kosinski's Chance the Gardener, Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby -- but after this week's tax deal and the outraged reaction to it (including by Obama himself), perhaps the most apt comparison is with...

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