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"[B]lessed with a vivid sense of humor and an artistic integrity unlike those of any other American filmmaker working today" is how Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum describes the work of writing team Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson (who also paired up on the 1996 underground hit Bottle Rocket ). The film, directed by Anderson, follows newcomer Jason Schwartzman as a dorky, overachieving high-school kid who competes with Bill Murray for a teacher's affections.
The Townies have been going to school in Washington forever, and they hate the popular newcomer who has displaced them in prestige.
A Mexican newcomer to Santa Fe once told me that he had been much puzzled by hearing rich Anglo tourists extol the charm of La Fonda (in English pronounced like fond plus schwa).
On Saturday (8 p.m.), HBO airs Steven Spielberg's uneven slave-revolt drama, Amistad , with strong performances by Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, and newcomer Djimon Hounsou as the noble Cinque, who recently guest-starred on ER as a noble Nigerian torture victim who becomes . . . a janitor.
It is a thick macedoine of Broad Scots and Ulster English, and it has a harsh and uncompromising rasp to it, especially if you don't understand a word that is being said to you--which, it might be added, is quite often the case if you are a newcomer to that part of the world.