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So as not to bore his audience, a journalist must have an extensive and complex vocabulary. To get you in the mood for this book, I offer you one word: Bildungsroman.
September 20, 2001 at 12:00 am

You know everything that will happen in this movie: There will be hackneyed and racist portrayals of the Chicago slums; there will be a white ne'er-do-well who is forced to coach the Bad News Bears; he will inspire them; they will inspire him; some kid will die; the team will win the championship; and Keanu Reeves will seem about as dense as a cinderblock.
September 20, 2001 at 12:00 am

Due to the devastating incidents of terrorism in New York City and Washington, the University's Tuesday classes have been cancelled as of noon today.
September 11, 2001 at 12:00 am

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August 1, 2001 at 12:00 am

Alma de Cuba's fa‡ade is painted a pale yellow, its name is displayed as nonchalantly as possible next to the imposing white door.
July 26, 2001 at 12:00 am

Walking into the Four Seasons to meet with Jerry Zucker I am a little intimidated. This is a man who has had a hand in some of my all-time favorite films, Ghost, Airplane, My Best Friends Wedding--just to name a few.
July 26, 2001 at 12:00 am

Whoever said all you need is love, forgot a few stipulations. All we really need is love, stability, and if you happen to be in Ireland in 1949, you should both probably be Catholic.
July 26, 2001 at 12:00 am

What would you do for a million dollars? How about 2 million? The ensemble comedic cast in Jerry Zucker's Rat Race doesn't have to answer that question until they are randomly picked by eccentric millionaire and owner of the Venetian casino in Las Vegas, Donald Sinclair, to be the contestants in a rat race, first one to a random gold rush town in New Mexico wins 2 million dollars. This is slapstick humor at its finest.
July 26, 2001 at 12:00 am

I'm starting to think my mom would enjoy prison, as long as she gets sentenced to the country-club haven featured in Greenfingers.
July 26, 2001 at 12:00 am

If Marilyn Manson and Orgy had a lovechild, it would be Professional Murder Music. The California quartet with a hip-hop name mixes electronic and nu-metal into a surprisingly polished sound on its self-titled Geffen records debut.
July 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

It shouldn't have been difficult to be a better sequel than The Lost World, but somehow Jurassic Park 3 manages the feat. Its by-the-numbers script, increasingly obvious plot twists, and absolutely no good explanation of why Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) would ever again get within a twenty mile radius of these terrible lizards, make Jurassic Park 3 a painful 85 minutes of tape. The third time around the special effects remain incredible, but less new and ambitious, since anyone would agree that tuning into the Discovery Channel for "When Dinosaurs Roamed America" was just as technologically sound and that plot, though little more than a nature video, was much more riveting. New monsters include the massive Spinosaurus, which at one point goes head to head with the Tyrannosaurus rex, and the swooping Pteranodons, which provide the film's few spine tingling moments. Critics can speculate that it is the lack of the Spielberg touch that makes this movie such a monstrosity, but the fallacy in their statements comes in the form of The Lost World.
July 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

They've been called the post-grunge, post-alternative, post-modern phenomenom, but being post-everything has to make them the forerunner of something--Weezer just isn't exactly sure what that something is yet. "Maybe we're the classic rock of the future," muses guitarist Brian Bell, after more than a moment's hesitation.
July 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

Bob Pollard isn't mainstream, and neither is the music of Guided by Voices (GBV) for that matter, but something about the band's recent song "Glad Girls" has caught the ears of the populace. "It's crazy," Pollard contends.
July 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

In Lost and Delirious, Mouse is a freshman assigned to live with two seniors when she arrives at her private boarding school.
July 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

If you were to lock some of the world's most talented and gifted actors into a room and instruct them to be funny for two hours, the results would be much like America's Sweethearts.
July 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

Dog lovers will truly appreciate the Tapestry Theatre's most recent production, "Chesapeake," directed by Michele Travis.
July 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

Travel agencies are already putting together glossy brochures luring tourists to the sandy white beaches of Cuba.
July 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

Goonies Never Die! (right?) So, what ever happened to Corey Feldman? Well, for 10 days ending last Friday, he was working in and around Philadelphia on Bikini Bandits: The Movie. The low-budget film (as if the name didn't give it away) is a full-length feature version of Internet film shorts by the same name, found on www.atomfilms.com, which feature four armed, scantily-clad ladies who carry out crime sprees against corporate America. "I did it for art, truthfully... [director] Steven Grasse contacted me and said he wanted me to do this art piece called Bikini Bandits... and I thought, well, you know, in my career there's been Stand by Me, there's been Dream a Little Dream, and then the pinnacle, really, could become Bikini Bandits.
July 19, 2001 at 12:00 am

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is not just a landmark in animation, it is a landmark in film. The animation is beautiful, the storyline is impressive--the movie is amazing. The animated movie, loosely based on the Final Fantasy video game series, takes place in the year 2065.
July 12, 2001 at 12:00 am

True to their anthem, Reel Big Fish have yet to "Sell Out." At least until now. Their latest record is supposedly taking a stab at some of the bubble gum pop kind of radio friendly kiddie music that often defines the term sell-out.
July 12, 2001 at 12:00 am