Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They handle the softball questions with no problem, talking about the importance of student groups. When the board asks how Patel and Darling voted on last year's controversial ROTC bill, they find themselves justifying their affirmative votes.
"You're trying to get a message across to people who don't know anything about the race," he says of campaigning among first-years. "They don't know anything about the U.C."
Emmets story is told in the form of a mock-biography, with the commentary of Allen and a few other jazz authorities interspliced between sequences of Emmets flickering Depression-era career. Allen takes a genial swipe at all of those documentaries in which scholars pose as talking heads, theorizing about...
Despite its short running time the movie does occasionally become tiresome in its second half, when Morton drops out of the picture to make way for a fancier enchantress. Unfortunately, Uma Thurman disappoints as Blanche, an Anais Nin wannabe with a fetish for performing geniuses: the amusing concept of her...
The films coda is satisfying enough on both an intellectual and an emotional level, but the very concept of Sweet and Lowdown, with its invented biographical framework and loosely connected scenes, works against the film burning itself in your memory. Even Penns fiery Emmet is too contained by the movies...