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Even the most ardent fans of "Pulp Fiction" will concede that two and a half hours of Tarantino can become a bit tedious. So how is it that "Hoop Dreams", a low-budget, three-hour documentary by previously unknown directors, managed to break through the impatient, assault-me-with-blood-and-bad-jokes sensibility of today's moviegoers to earn praise from Loews audiences...
Consequently, theater buffs might be intrigued by some of the scenes in the "Secret Rapture." I must reiterate, however, that I found this film neither entertaining, nor particularly insightful. Ardent moviegoers would do best to sit this...
...sight of all these orts and fragments in Twombly's pictures seems to have convinced his more ardent admirers that he's a classicist, saturated in the myths and literature of the ancient Mediterranean, exuding them from every pictorial pore. All he has to do is scrawl a wobbly triumph of galatea or et in arcadia ego on a canvas, and suddenly he's up there with Roberto Calasso, if not Edward Gibbon. When an audience that has lost all touch with the classical background once considered indispensable in education sees virgil written in a picture, it accepts...
Like most other artistically inclined young men of the time, Rorem felt the call of postwar Europe. An ardent Francophile, he became an American in Paris par excellence, finding still headier mentors in the likes of Jean Cocteau, Nadia Boulanger, Francis Poulenc and Marie-Laure de Noailles, the legendary patroness of the avant-garde.Rorem never misses the opportunity to tell us whom he slept with -- and whom he didn't. (Cocteau belongs in the small, latter category...
...iron rule in Paraguay, was ousted in 1989 after a military coup. He fled to Brazil, where he lives in a well-guarded mansion in Brasilia. Stroessner is said to enjoy fishing and traveling around the country visiting his former military buddies. He is also known to be an ardent fan of Xuxa (pronounced Shoo-shah), Brazil's Barbie-esque kiddie-show hostess...