The waste land. (9/16/01)
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The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion. [Woody Allen, 2001.]
After trading insults for a couple of hours without reminding us in the slightest of Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant, fauxForties insurance investigators Helen Hunt [Reason] and Woody Allen [Intuition] finally fall for one another while unravelling the mystery set in motion by a stage magician who isn’t Charlie Chan who [watch closely, this is the notsoclever part] has hypnotized them into committing the very jewel robberies they’re trying to solve [I guess they’re not themselves.] — Charlize Theron is not quite Veronica Lake; Dan Ackroyd isn’t really Edward G. Robinson; Elizabeth Berkley doesn’t suck. — Maybe this is why the Schoolmen remind us that the Divine Perfection can only be defined by negatives. Or maybe not.
____________Grrly action (8/24/01)
