First, a clarification regarding the title of the newly released
action-comedy Knight and Day: "Knight" refers either to a) the
long-abandoned family name of one of the two principal characters, a
glamorous superspy played by Tom Cruise who, for all narrative and
promotional purposes, now goes by the name "Roy Miller"; or b) a small
toy paladin in which a Secret Device that Could Change the World is
briefly hidden. And "Day"? One might imagine that it refers to the
spunky everygal played by costar Cameron Diaz. One would be wrong. (Her
character's name is "June Havens.") In fact, it doesn't refer to
anything at all; the word's sole purpose is to balance the
already-a-stretch "Knight." I mean honestly. If we had to go down this
path at all, why not A Knight to Remember, or Knight Moves? The
titillating PG-13 innuendo of A Knight in June? Or, with appropriate
legal representation on call, Darkest Knight? But no, for no discernable
reason outside the preferences of some anonymous focus group, we're
given Knight and Day, Cole Porter be damned.
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