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'Little Children'
![About halfway through Todd Field's deeply resonant "Little Children," adulterous suburban lovers Sarah and Brad (Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson) indulge in something really naughty: They join in a moment of mass moral panic and righteous ostracism at the community pool. The cheerful chaos has just been obliterated by the discovery that the goggled and flippered town pervert, Ronnie McGorvey (Jackie Earle Haley), has slipped into the water among the kids. Sarah spots him first, then awareness sweeps over the crowd like a wave. Parents rush poolside, children scramble out of the water or get plucked out by the armpits, babies start to wail. It's as if the shark from "Jaws" had finally found a way to justify decades of collective primal fear. Wrapping their arms around their kids, Sarah and Brad instinctively join the crowd. They may be guilty, but McGorvey, mercifully for them, is guilty of much worse.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-10/25752897.jpg "About halfway through Todd Field's deeply resonant "Little Children,\" adulterous suburban lovers Sarah and Brad (Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson) indulge in something really naughty: They join in a moment of mass moral panic and righteous ostracism at the community pool. The cheerful chaos has just been obliterated by the discovery that the goggled and flippered town pervert, Ronnie McGorvey (Jackie Earle Haley), has slipped into the water among the kids. Sarah spots him first, then awareness sweeps over the crowd like a wave. Parents rush poolside, children scramble out of the water or get plucked out by the armpits, babies start to wail. It's as if the shark from \"Jaws\" had finally found a way to justify decades of collective primal fear. Wrapping their arms around their kids, Sarah and Brad instinctively join the crowd. They may be guilty, but McGorvey, mercifully for them, is guilty of much worse.")
Times Staff WriterAbout halfway through Todd Field's deeply resonant "Little Children," adulterous suburban lovers Sarah and Brad (Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson) indulge in something really naughty: They join in a moment of mass moral panic and righteous ostracism at the...Tags: Patrick Wilson, Elections, Alexander Payne, Lifestyle and Leisure, Local Elections
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NBC Olympics: My Final Final Grade
The TV ZoneYou can't let another Olympics slide by without jumping into the mosh pit of NBC criticism. Now, my turn, hours after the closing ceremony which - I presume - featured real fireworks this time. Criticism of NBC's coverage? What......Tags: Bob Costas, Matt Lauer, Computer Networking and Internet, NBC (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice
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Double-barreled firepower
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's one of the most urgent questions facing men of a certain age today, particularly in Latin American countries, a question that strikes at one's core values and affirms one's identity as a soccer-mad, tequila-swigging, red-blooded varon. That question...Tags: Luc Besson, Salma Hayek, Sam Peckinpah, Entertainment, Cheshire
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'Whale Rider'
!["Whale Rider" has been something of a sensation on the international film festival circuit, winning audience awards at such diverse and influential festivals as Sundance, Toronto, Rotterdam and San Francisco. Yet far from over-hyping the project, all those honors turn out not to do justice to this significant and surprising film.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-06/8083913.jpg ""Whale Rider\" has been something of a sensation on the international film festival circuit, winning audience awards at such diverse and influential festivals as Sundance, Toronto, Rotterdam and San Francisco. Yet far from over-hyping the project, all those honors turn out not to do justice to this significant and surprising film.")
Times Staff Writer"Whale Rider" has been something of a sensation on the international film festival circuit, winning audience awards at such diverse and influential festivals as Sundance, Toronto, Rotterdam and San Francisco. Yet far from over-hyping the project, all...Tags: Death, Cliff Curtis, New Zealand, Entertainment, Movies
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'Hulk'
![A story about a nice guy who turns as big, bad and green as King Kong on a bender, "Hulk" is based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who launched their monster around the time that Kennedy and Khrushchev were set to launch their missiles. Directed by Ang Lee, the film stars Eric Bana as the Hulk's human alter ego and Nick Nolte as an Oedipal figure by way of Hubert Selby Jr., which helps explain its ambitions as well as the eccentric fact that the scariest thing in this likable if tame monster movie is Nolte's hair.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-06/8270170.jpg "A story about a nice guy who turns as big, bad and green as King Kong on a bender, "Hulk\" is based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who launched their monster around the time that Kennedy and Khrushchev were set to launch their missiles. Directed by Ang Lee, the film stars Eric Bana as the Hulk's human alter ego and Nick Nolte as an Oedipal figure by way of Hubert Selby Jr., which helps explain its ambitions as well as the eccentric fact that the scariest thing in this likable if tame monster movie is Nolte's hair.")
Times Staff WriterA story about a nice guy who turns as big, bad and green as King Kong on a bender, "Hulk" is based on the character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who launched their monster around the time that Kennedy and Khrushchev were set to launch their...Tags: France, Berkeley (Alameda, California), Spider-Man (fictional character), Danny Elfman, Sam Elliott
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'The Forgotten'
![If you've seen the trailer for "The Forgotten," you've seen a woodland cabin explode and a federal agent get sucked into the sky as if by some kind of cosmic Dustbuster. In other words, you've probably already gathered that "The Forgotten" is more than a quietly creepy psychological thriller.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-09/14373898.jpg "If you've seen the trailer for "The Forgotten,\" you've seen a woodland cabin explode and a federal agent get sucked into the sky as if by some kind of cosmic Dustbuster. In other words, you've probably already gathered that \"The Forgotten\" is more than a quietly creepy psychological thriller.")
Times Staff WriterIf you've seen the trailer for "The Forgotten," you've seen a woodland cabin explode and a federal agent get sucked into the sky as if by some kind of cosmic Dustbuster. In other words, you've probably already gathered that "The Forgotten" is more than...Tags: Thriller (genre), Alfre Woodard, Anthony Edwards, Science, Death
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St. Louis site details life of ragtime great
Special to the Tribune"Maybe 50 years after I'm dead my music will be appreciated." -- Scott Joplin, 1915It might seem ironic, or it might seem typical, that it took a wealthy white musician to give a mostly undiscovered African-American composer his due. Prior to 1974,...Tags: Missouri, Academy Awards, Death, African Americans, Homes
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'Texasville' by Larry McMurtry
Welcome back to Thalia, seat of Hardtop County, Tex., where the terrain is so flat that the net at the municipal tennis court forms a skyline. Readers of Larry McMurtry's "The Last Picture Show" will be surprised to hear that Thalia has anything so grand...Tags: Erskine Caldwell, Petroleum Industry, Death, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice
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The Young Poisoners Handbook
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday March 8, 1996 More films are off-putting than not these days, but "The Young Poisoner's Handbook" is not content with that alone: It's unpleasant to no discernible purpose. Based with considerable looseness on the true crime story of...Tags: Sam Taylor, Science and Technology, Death, Crimes, Abusive Behavior
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Heat
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday December 15, 1995 What's old has been made fine and new in "Heat." Writer-director Michael Mann and a superlative cast have taken a classic heist movie rife with familiar genre elements and turned it into a sleek, accomplished piece of work,...Tags: Amy Brenneman, Los Angeles Police Department, Vice (movie), Tuesday Weld, Alain Delon
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