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Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the complicated 'Queen Ravenna', and Stewart's performance as 'Snow White', the fairest of them all, in her first action-heroine role, kept her literally in constant motion.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Complicated Constant Demands Fairest First Her Intrigued Kept Literally Material Motion Performance Playing Psychological Queen Role Says She Snow Snow White Them White

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Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.'

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Across Anyone Best Blew Born Century Cube Donkey Eddie Eddie Murphy Elvis Elvis Presley Ensemble Hearing Ice Known Leather Made Murphy Overly Red Stage Straight Up Would 21St Century

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'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi lump 'Battlefield Earth.' And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: About After Bad Bad Idea Battlefield Beginning Earth Endangered Endangered Species Extinction Idea Like Lump Man Minutes Picture Sci-Fi Seem Species Titles

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The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Back Begin Begins Booth Call Change Degradation Phone Phone Call Road Self-Awareness Single Sometimes

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The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Before Between Brief Comic Connects David Director Dots Encounter Lean Lost Love Melodrama Mood Movies New Richard Standards Sunrise Thoroughly Three Translation Yearning

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'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Actually Bad Boat Dumb More Than Tiresome Trip

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'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn, of 'The Late Late Show,' sidles into camera range as a particularly loathsome competitor to Mitch.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Camera Competitor Could Craig Late Late-Night Late-Night Talk Old Old School Particularly Range School Show Talk Talk Show

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Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, 'Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.'

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Adapted Adolescence Bees Boyfriend Cliques Daughter Fey Girl Gossip Head Helping Interaction Live Night Nonfiction Other Performer Queen Realities Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live Societal Survive Teenage Teenage Girl Tina Tina Fey Writer Your

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The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the revered Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki's epic and marvelous new anime fantasy.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Animation Anime Away Corporate Could Director Disney Done Epic Fantasy Japanese Level Marvelous New Refer Revered Spirited Title

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Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: About Ambition Boy Christmas Day Fairy Fairy Tale Faith Live Only Party Puppet Real Republican Republican Party Same Seems Showing Tale Theaters Version Whose Wooden

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: December 6th, 1958

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