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...years ago, the Hughes brothers, Allen and Albert, made Menace II Society, a violent melodrama whose film-school flash won kudos. Last year's top novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living...
Vice President for Finance Allen J. Proctor '74 said last month that the current policies were in the "best interests of the University...
Director of the Harvard Foundation S. Allen Counter delivered opening remarks at the dinner, celebrating Hill's "life work and dedication" to the advocacy of human rights. Joining Counter in his greetings were Eliot House Master Steve Mitchell and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
Fortunately, Allen eventually dumps the wife stuff to concentrate on one of his classic characters: Linda, whom Sorvino wonderfully incarnates with a weenie voice and a brassy poignancy. The distracting visual trope of Allen's last few movies--that virtually every scene, no matter how long, must be filmed in one shot with a very fidgety camera--pays off in the first meeting of Lenny and Linda; the comic tension is deliciously built and sustained. And when the chorus breaks into some dreamy Cole Porter harmonies as background to an unlikely amour, the goofiness is almost magical...
...suspicion lingers that Woody Allen deserves a good spanking, and not from a prostitute with a heart of gold. But, listen: humor and sentiment can triumph over stern morality any day. Once the picture gets going, it reminds us that Allen is also an artist with an acute feel for movie romance. So scruples be damned. This time, Mighty makes all righty...