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...early Burglary Years is also an enhanced CD--it comes with some bonus multi-media. Before you go out and buy that new Morrissey-monogrammed CD-Rom, however, beware: the "bonus" sucks. Only the most avid Morrissey fan could find pleasure in watching the grainy video for "Sunny" (No wonder why the video was never released...). Ostensibly shot with a camcorder, the video shows three people in Victoria Park, London, laughing and smiling throughout robberies and domestic violence. A young woman kisses the man who robbed...
...South Africa, the black classes have traditionally watched soccer games, and the Afrikaners are avid fans of rugby...
Well, frankly, you don't matter. To Hollywood, kids matter. They are the most avid movie patrons--nearly half go twice a month or more, double the rate for 25-to-34-year-olds--and there are more of them than ever before. "The teenage population is growing faster than any other segment," says Paramount executive Rob Friedman, "and their tastes are more sophisticated than they used to be." They go for hip variations on old themes, flocking to the two Scream films (each earned more than $100 million at the domestic box office) or to a canny thriller like...
...Krzysztof Piesiewicz, knew that drama begins with the human face; it is a sponge for the viewer's emotional complicity. So the camera takes closeup mug shots of faces in love or anxiety. Or it crouches furtively, behind a tree, in a closet like a fretful nephew or an avid voyeur. It watches ordinary people (including some of the most beautiful actresses in Europe) tangling with moral demons, holding on to what they were taught to believe or--this being real life in Poland just after martial law--what they have learned to settle...
...glorious moment in the annals of sports history when Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won their sixth NBA championship [MICHAEL JORDAN: THE END OF THE LINE?, June 22]. I haven't always been an avid Jordan fan. I once thought he was overpaid, that nobody was that good. But no more. He's turned playing basketball into an art form. He is the Lord of the Hardwood Floor, a unique athlete and classy human being. We've seen basketball played with perfection by the greatest player ever. JOHN L. HORTON Norfolk...