Pretty Woman, Dopey Guy
Fed up with the Force and sick of cyberspace, I now return from galaxies far, far away to three new films that disprove the assumption that romance is dead at the movies. Notting Hill asks the question, Can a narcissistic, self-absorbed Hollywood movie star who looks like Julia Roberts trash her career Read MoreRoger Michell's Notting Hill , from a screenplay by Richard Curtis, turns out to be too wondrously charming and funny as romantic entertainment to be relegated to the role of a strategic adult counter-programming entry in the face of the anticipated child-cult box-office tornado of George Lucas' ludicrously overhyped Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace Read More
In London during Easter week, I went to a restaurant called Pharmacy. Only someone who slices up dead cows and floats them in formaldehyde could invent a place like this. The most fashionable new restaurant in London, Pharmacy has waiters dressed in surgical gowns designed by Prada, cabinets filled with white boxes of medicine and Read More
