Posted
4:59 PM
by Gene
The auditions begin for Effete Edelstein's vacant big chair -- and will it take a big pile of lard to fill it. First up -- and up and up --
STEVE:
Match Point
starts out crisply and deliciously, but in the end, it's a chess problem crossed with an ethics exam. I wanted to know so much more: about what it's like to be poor, to want to be rich, and to feel the force of a sexual grippe that would make you piss it all away. What do we get instead? A fact pattern lifted from Dostoevsky and soaked in nobody's warm blood.Very good, VERY good -- here the seat's just empty and already we have the master's way with, er, writing! Good luck, Steve -- and ALL our contestants. May the worst writer win! (As he/she/it will.)