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...That Jazz. For their first date, the couple went to the Regatta Bar. A jazz aficionado, Janessa was happy to learn that Derek played the saxophone, and suggested the outing. But each one claims that the other actually asked first...

Author: By Thomas J. Castillo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Cap and Gown to Wedding Gown | 6/7/2000 | See Source »

OCCUPATION Wine aficionado and founder of the Grateful Palate, a gourmet-food catalog based in Oxnard, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dan Philips | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...richer and more satisfying than Garage Inc., last fall's covers album, S & M is Metallica's ultimate creative venture. The casual metal listener or non-Metallica aficionado may not understand what all the fuss is about, but still, consider yourself rocked to the bone...

Author: By William Gienapp, | Title: Album Review: S & M by Metallica and the SFSO | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...However, after Esteban's death, Almodvar supplies the pretentious and melodramatic art film twist, losing the faith of anyone aside from the loyal film aficionado. Manuel donates Esteban's heart and goes to Barcelona in search of Esteban's father, a transvestite originally an Esteban himself but now Lola the Pioneer. The depiction of one train moving forward and another train moving backward, when coupled with Manuela's voice-over of the history and purpose for her journey detract from Almodvar's intention that the scene serve as a point of transition and departure. In an almost music-video-like...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Almodóvar in Love...With Mom? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...tension replace scenes of relaxation. Visually, each scene has an obnoxious similarity to the one before. Despite the melodrama and technique slip-ups, Almodvar allows the women to learn about themselves even though each woman creates a new reality within her existence. Manuela pretends to be a poor theater aficionado, Agrado pretends to be a real woman, Huma wishes to run from a heart broken by her cocaine-snorting junkie girlfriend, and Sister Rosa must hide from the order and her parents. Yet in this situation, four women learn that the kindness of strangers and the spontaneous solidarity of women...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Almodóvar in Love...With Mom? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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