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Italian newspapers continued to debate the behavior of the Oscar-winning actor-director of Life Is Beautiful , Roberto Benigni, who smothered President Clinton with kisses during the Florence summit last weekend.
Near-unanimity on the verdict: Actor-director Kevin Costner's latest is "truly awful" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). The post-apocalyptic Western about a band of mailmen who save the United States is faulted for its ridiculous premise, mawkish dialogue, and megalomaniacal directing, among other things.
What has enraptured so many critics, among them Richard Schickel in Clint Eastwood: A Biography , is that the actor-director has learned to play with his own inexpressiveness--to make a joke of his frigid machismo without (and here's where the supreme balancing act comes in) travestying it.
That doesn't surprise me, since contrasting points of view don't make it into Eastwood's movies, either, which is why I have some trouble accepting this notion of the actor-director as an "ironist."