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But, increasingly, there are calls for conservation biology to cast aside its sentimental demons: biodiversity is a commodity that can be bought and sold; conservation is business.
Cushing, alas, is gone, but Burton has cast Hammer stalwarts Christopher Lee in a (too brief) cameo as the burgomaster who dispatches Crane to Sleepy Hollow and Michael Gough (also seen as Alfred in the Batman films) as a one-eyed accountant.
Most pundits, recalling Jack's and Bobby's assassinations, have cast his family as the ultimate victim of his crash.
Shots of cute animals are deemed an inadequate substitute for the cutting wit that made the earlier film (by the same cast, and also written by John Cleese) a cult hit.
Despite protests from the Catholic League, reviewers agree that writer-director Kevin Smith's latest is "a tortured testament from a true believer" (Richard Corliss, Time ). What's more, this "obviously devout, enlightened parable" about a pair of rebellious angels (played by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) is "mercilessly funny" and "gratifyingly cynicism free" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, and Alan Rickman round out the cast as the 13 th apostle, a muse, and a messenger from God.