Thirst and Ten
Winners of 10 straight, it’s safe to say the Los Angeles Lakers are on a roll. They flattened the Miami Heat last night 106-88 as Jordan Farmar came off the bench to lead the team, scoring a career-high 24 points. Kobe chipped in with 21 of his own and Ronny Turiaf showed defensive fortitude by blocking three shots and collecting 12 rebounds. Today, Purple and Gold flew to Portland, Oregon where they’ll face the 30-28 Trailblazers for the second time in four days. The Blazers are 21-8 at home this season and hungry for revenge after last week’s 96-83 loss inside Staples Center. Watch the KCAL 9 broadcast starting at 7:30 pm to see if LA can keep the streak alive and make it to lucky number 11.
Intolerable Cruelty is unlike any Coen brothers’ movie I’ve ever seen. While only halfway through, their usual bluntly dark wit is veiled in superfluous lawyer jargon and doublespeak from an animated George Clooney, whose slapstick timing hearkens back to bygone days of debonair, yet physical, comedy. From this performance I can see why Regis Philbin embarrassingly compared him to Cary Grant on the Academy Awards red carpet last Sunday. Catherine Zeta-Jones is his litigious nemesis turned love interest while Cedric the Entertainer, Geoffrey Rush, and Billy Bob Thornton round out the bulk of the cast list. With age comes a change in tastes and some added patience as I can remember when this film was released being entirely uninterested in the concept. Five years later, the actors’ chemistry appeals to me and a premise once derided and dismissed as formulaic is merely a springboard for the unexpected that tends to manifest itself in a Coen brothers’ story.
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