| One weathercaster called it a "must-see
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| | agrees was even better than "Scream,"
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| light and shadow show by the Old Master
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| | would doubtless have languished in
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| Himself," but I can't say this last solar
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| | perpetual turnaround since filmgoers
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| eclipse was worthy of the recommendation.
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| | would have found the emotions of fear and
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| Not even total, and staged (in my
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| | panic depicted in the original much too
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| location anyway) behind a thick cloud
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| | weird and elusive for a sequel to ever be
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| cover that served only to diffuse the
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| | greenlighted.
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| vivid contrasts essential to any dramatic
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| | What's more, we can be reasonably certain
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| effect, the "Old Master" might have been
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| | that the popular denouement of the "happy
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| faxing it in from deep space somewhere
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| | ending"-the product of an inevitable
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| for all the incandescence it could claim.
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| | backlash-would never have been developed.
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| Quite frankly, as light shows go, I
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| | So while it's often, for me, like feeling
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| thought more interesting work was being
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| | obliged to respect whatever that was that
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| done at the Electric Circus back in the
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| | Marcel Marceau used to do, even as you
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| '60s.
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| | knew that one more minute of it and your
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| Now let's please not have any
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| | lungs were going to erupt with blood, I'm
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| misunderstandings. I'm aware that I'm
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| | more than prepared to honor the "Old
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| criticizing the performance of a
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| | Master's" achievements. It's just that
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| venerable figure who, over the eons and
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| | I'm not what you'd call a huge fan. What
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| in every conceivable form and category,
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| | puts me off most is...well...it's His
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| has compiled an impressive oeuvre. If I
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| | LORDLY attitude. I could forgive Him a
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| have to confess that a lot of His stuff
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| | lot-yes, even those tedious revivals of
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| is not to my taste, that I find much of
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| | His wind-and-water specials that take out
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| it heavy-handed or impenetrable (when,
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| | half a state-were He less disdainful of
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| indeed, it is not distracted and slack),
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| | His audience, less willfully opaque and
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| this doesn't mean I've failed to
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| | ambiguous. I know this "mysterious ways"
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| recognize the enormous contribution He's
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| | thing is a cornerstone of His persona and
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| made.
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| | I can understand His reluctance to give
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| I'm thinking, of course, of the models
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| | it up. But, bordering on the
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| some of His stunning manipulations of the
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| | pathological, His aversion to making His
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| more volatile natural elements provided
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| | meanings known is wearing a little thin,
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| for the Irwin Allen disaster films. And,
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| | don't you think?
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| to be sure, there's His introduction of
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| | I'll allow that, however disappointing it
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| death itself which, brilliantly
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| | may be, it's ultimately of small
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| counterbalancing His earlier invention of
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| | consequence when He mounts a shoddy
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| genders and sex, forestalled the unwieldy
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| | eclipse. But it's something else again
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| prospect of twenty-thousand expansion
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| | when, for one especially egregious
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| teams in just the American League East
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| | example, He leaves you to blow out all
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| (and, say, the 2005 playoffs extending
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| | your circuits trying to figure just where
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| well into the 2020 season). But that's
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| | Hannity and Colmes fit into the notion
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| hardly been the limit of this remarkable
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| | that if you're on the planet it's for a
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| innovation's reach and impact. In its
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| | reason.
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| absence, "Scream 2," which everyone
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