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Summer 2004
Til All Hallows' Eve
Volume 3 • Issue 4
 
 Write Between the Lines is an exploration and articulation of the obvious and the obscure. A cavalcade of creation and commentary designed to amuse and bemuse.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pretty and Darn Quick
  
     
 

PDQ

Film and

Television Reviews

by

Assorted and Sundry

Rabble Rousers

  

 

  
     
  • Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Starsky and Hutch Comedy through the majesty of Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and the Wilson boys.

"We're trying not to spoof it or parody it parody it in anyway. We don't want to parody it mainly because I can't say the word parody. Ben Stiller's Dodgeball interview in E! Behind the Scenes		  
 
 
  • The Casino Watching Vegas swingers Tim and Tom restore The Golden Nugget to its former rat pack glory is "2 shots of happy, 1 shot of sad."  
     
 
View from The Golden Nugget Parking Structure. Photo by Carolyn Kellogg		  
     
  • Collateral Tom Cruise expertly plays Michael Mann's man of steel and Jamie Foxx is the hijacked cabbie that acts as collateral to the killer Cruise. Character exposition makes the film a little too tidy, better is the film's glossy look. Coyote imagery (used in the same hallucinogenic style of Less Than Zero) indicates Los Angeles civilization is just a mirage — in reality — still the wild, wild, west.  
     
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind As joyous and delightfully puzzling as the origin of the children's hide-and-seek chant "olly, olly oxen free."  
     
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Y Tu Mama También's director Alfonso Cuarón's clever go at the franchise translates into "mischief mangaged."
 		 
     
  • Hell Boy Henna skinned Hell Boy drinks Bud Light. The Real Men of Genius beer of choice.
  
     
  • Riding Giants As he did with skate boarding in Dogtown and Z-Boys, Stacy Peralta places big wave riding in historical and cultural context — and examines its allure, best illuminated by Greg Noll, a surf forefather, with his romantic relationship with the surf siren: "I looked out; I think she winked at me."  
     
  • The Simple Life At the beginning of season one, Nicole Ritchie says to Paris Hilton: "Wouldn't it be nice if they [the producers] completely surprised us and took us to Paris for five weeks?" Now at the end of season two, the giddy girls have gone anywhere but — showing us that Americans need not travel abroad to act ugly. Loves it.  
     
  • Swimming Pool "I was thirteen the first time. I haven't stopped since," is the insouciant line mystery writer Charlotte Rampling's publisher's daughter drops in this sensual thriller. Wade in, this isn't your mother's Agatha Christie.
 
 
 
  • Thirteen Director/writer Catherine Hardwicke and her teen-aged co-writer Nicki Reed present a modern day Go Ask Alice with this high wire act between self-esteem and the ages of 11, 12, and 13.