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For 40 years, McBain has been a lively and gritty chronicler of New York City life and helped inspire TV cop shows such as Homicide , NYPD Blue , and Hill Street Blues .
The consensus: Phair's long-awaited offering lacks the gritty low-fi feel and raunchy lyrics that characterized Exile in Guyville , her 1993 album, which won the Village Voice Pazz & Jop Album of the Year Award, but the new album is more diverse musically.
Hold it--there's something about the words "gritty" and "Sharon Stone" that don't belong in the same sentence.
Individual performances are said to be inspired; the card hall settings are said to be gritty; the dialogue is said to be pleasingly peppered with poker jargon--but the film is deemed "unable to do justice to its potential" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Objections: a sluggish plot and a predictable setup.
In the absence of the nitty gritty, however, I will take a flier and say that the administration did this for political gain-i.e., to help Ms. Clinton in New York, home of a great many Latino voters.