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ANNA KOURNIKOVA Underage tennis ace makes eyes at N.H.L. star Sergei Fedorov, but romantic displays...
...woman who is out to kill him. His new film has all the moves of a '90s action comedy: the macho bonding and bantering, the glints of earthy wit overshadowed by gun waving and pratfalling--exactly what you'd expect from director Steve Oedekerk, the auteur of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls...
...parting shot, the Mountain Goats played a tribute (The Sign) to European dance music, and long term music contracts. Darnielle explained before ending the concert that the Ace of Base saga is one of the truly tragic stories of our time. Two minutes later, he had a crowd of bespectacled college students waving their arms back and forth tot he melody. After the concert, while fans circled the now embarassed looking Darnielle, someone commented that the show had been just like a Ray Bradbury short story: "Moving but wonderful." Slowly, the crowd dispersed towards home, back to their bedrooms...
...auteur kudos would give giggle fits to veteran sleazemasters, who saw films as just part of the con of peddling the promise of smut to suckers. If there was an art to grindhouse movies, it was the art of the spiel. As ace exploitation entrepreneur David F. Friedman (She Freak, Trader Hornee) boasts in Eddie Muller and Daniel Faris' breezy, authoritative, gaudily illustrated Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of "Adults Only" Cinema (St. Martin's Griffin; 160 pages; $19.95), "I've got a high school education in making movies but a Ph.D. in selling them...
Chen's theme, from his first film, Yellow Earth (1984), has been the indoctrination of children--and, often, their misuse by those who should care for them (read: the state). But he has never illustrated it as voluptuously as here. He and ace cinematographer Christopher Doyle bathe Gong Li in warm reds, giving her a fever of frustrated love, and surround Cheung with cold grays to reflect the ice of his resentment. As the slick gigolo and avenging angel of the Pang family, Cheung radiates the intensity of a lover scorned and scarred for life. In a performance that dares...