His
career is
twice as
long now, and I'm
twice as old — making me the age that he was when Punch - Drunk Love was released; another rhyme — so I'm even more tuned
in to the way his style has grown
in sophistication, how his thematic concerns have deepened.
The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars
twice — once
in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey
Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing
career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his
career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center
in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?
Cramer has a
long record of climate change denial (apropos of nothing, over his
career Cramer has received more than a half million bucks
in funding from the fossil fuel industry, more than
twice as much as any other industry).