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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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Diminished Capacity

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A Very British Gangster

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"I played a part in

"I played a part in a movie, wore cowboy duds and galloped down the road," writes Bob Dylan in Newsweek's excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography, "Chronicles, Volume One" (Simon and Schuster). He's talking about his performance as "Alias" in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ('73), for which there was "not much required" and about which "I was probably naive," the poet-troubador writes. But here's the real drill-bit excerpt, printed on the lower right side of page 56: "Sometime in the past I'd written and performed songs that were most original and most influential, and I didn't know if I ever would again and I didn't care." Dylan said the same thing more profoundly in a song from Nashville Skyline: "Once I held mountains in the palm of my hand/and rivers that ran through every day/I must have been mad/I never what I had/until I threw it all away."

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 28, 2004 at 11:12 PM

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