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...finally here. Turn on the Rocky anthem and buckle in because the Harvard men's hockey team is off to St. Lawrence for the quarterfinal round of the ECAC Tournament...
DESPITE HIS CONTROVERSIAL REPutation, Tupac Shakur was always an ambivalent gangsta, at least on record. His 1993 album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., included an anthem called Keep Ya Head Up that was chivalrously supportive of black women; on his last album, the confrontationally titled Me Against the World, he rapped a surprisingly tender tribute to his mother titled Dear Mama. Even as Shakur was being vilified in the mainstream press as a tough-talkin', gin-and-juice-drinkin' gangsta rapper, his songwriting was becoming increasingly intelligent and introspective...
...Tale is a very acceptable update. Especially if you like Woody Allen too. For Branagh has adopted a number of Allen's mannerisms: shooting in black and white, using old songs for the score--in this case, frugally, just one song, Noel Coward's great anti-show biz anthem, Why Must the Show...
...that Rodgers and Hammerstein anthem, an inadvertent camp classic, fits the nostalgic mood of City Hall. The film harks back a decade or two to the days when New York pols with great names--Meade Esposito, Stanley Steingut--swaggered toward a dread destiny. The bad guys in City Hall are in that mold: princes of darkness, Borgias of Brooklyn. The movie's obvious forebear is The Godfather, which apotheosized the dirty dealings of statesmen and Mafiosi in the richly upholstered, 10-watt throne room of Hades...
...time all season. The No. 1 Laker fan, Nicholson, was in Miami making a movie, but there were other luminaries: Rob Lowe, Jon Lovitz, Christopher Darden. When Magic came out for warmups, the crowd was on its feet, and when the p.a. system pumped up Randy Newman's old anthem I Love L.A., the crowd shouted out the chorus ("We love it!") in unison. Grinning from ear to ear was Laker assistant coach Michael Cooper, the man who left Magic's press conference in tears four years...