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His mournful performance ennobles Benton's conception without enlivening it.
Bush, it seems, has become an Austin Powers fanatic, enlivening his contentless campaign travels with dead-on imitations of Dr. Evil.
On the upside, the book is a ripsnorting read, and Lewis "has a natural talent for spinning hilarious scenes and uncovering wicked details" (Steven Levy, Newsweek ). As Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times , "Lewis uses a sort of Tom Wolfe approach, enlivening his account of complicated financial deals and even more complicated engineering feats with snappy cameo portraits, exclamatory descriptions and lots of subjective judgments."
More enlivening by far is Love and Death on Long Island , in which another aging protagonist (John Hurt), a clubby English novelist poignantly out of touch with modern society, goes on another soulful quest, developing an obsession with a beautiful teen idol (Jason Priestley) whom he accidentally sees on-screen in a film called Hot Pants College 2 . First-time director Richard Kwietniowski has fun with the collision of high and low culture, and he does elegant work.