HEARTBREAK HOTELS.(Lost in Translation)(Dirty Pretty Things)(Movie Review)

Back in the sixties, when the movie-porn revels were just getting under way in San Francisco, I knew a young man who occasionally took part in the industry as an actor. My friend would receive puzzling instructions from his director: "I want you to make love with cold passion." But what in the world was cold passion? How do you produce it? I thought of his dilemma when I saw Bill Murray, in Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation," attempting to deliver a commercial tag line in a way that pleases the director of the commercial. "For relaxing times, make it Suntory time," Murray says over and over. Murray plays Bob Harris, a movie star whose career is winding down. Stuck in ...