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...after making a specialty of playing dark characters like Jim Morrison in The Doors and drug-addicted John Holmes in Wonderland, he's starring in his first intelligent buddy comedy. The directorial debut of Shane Black--the highest-paid screenwriter of the early to mid-'90s (Lethal Weapon, Last Action Hero), who hadn't worked in six years--Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang pairs Kilmer with Robert Downey Jr. in a very meta film-noir detective story in which the narrator is constantly interrupting to apologize for various film clichés. Kilmer plays Gay Perry, a private investigator...
...always case. “Harvard has had a long history of dealing with rapes internally, through Administrative Boards, and not encouraging victims to report to the civil authorities,” she wrote. “That has changed, but was more true in the early 90s,” Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) was established in 2003 and provides confidential 24-hour assistance for students who have experienced sexual assault and related forms of interpersonal violence. Ryan praises the progress that the OSAPR has made under director Susan Marine...
...from coal. The gasification process, which is also the first step in turning coal to diesel, would strip much of the filth and toxicity from coal before it's burned. Tampa Electric already uses this kind of technology at its Polk Power Station, which started out in the mid-90s as a joint project with the Energy Department...
With audiences hostile to innovation, and in the absence of franchise directors, distributors look for movies that stress heart over art. The three breakout foreign-language hits of the '90s--Cinema Paradiso and Il Postino from Italy and Like Water for Chocolate from Mexico--are nice romantic dramas about love and loss. They were brilliantly promoted by Miramax. But they didn't extend film language as Fellini's or Godard's films did; instead, they gave audiences that warm-puppy feeling. Any Disney movie can do that. So can many of the American independent films that have filled...
Screenwriter Shane Black, the guy behind a bunch of unremarkable mid-90s action movies (such as “Lethal Weapon”) most recently directs and writes “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” a smart-assed labor of love, both a hokey pulp murder-mystery and satire of same, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. The film’s most dubious aspect, though, is a bizarre half-baked subplot involving child sexual abuse. In an interview with The Harvard Crimson, Kilmer and Black—either from jet-lag or sheer fatigue...