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...good. No one is likely to confuse Kathryn Bigelow's sleek thriller Point Break, which improbably but effectively combined cops and surfers (and grossed $40 million last summer), with Randa Haines' The Doctor (late summer's surprise hit), about an arrogant surgeon who becomes a befuddled cancer patient in his own hospital and as a result humanizes his practice. Says Bigelow, who directed a cleverly variant vampire movie (Near Dark) and one about a gun-loving policewoman (Blue Steel): "I like to make films that are provocative, that can rattle your cage." Haines, who also directed Children of a Lesser...
...according to Bigelow, the accumulation of contacts. "What's been achieved for women," she says, "is access." As the Hollywood cliche goes, it's a relationship business, and all directors, male and female, need what Silver calls godfathers, studio executives who are sympathetic to their work. "Younger studio executives are more responsive to women. They have girlfriends, sisters, wives who work, and they are simply better attuned to the problems of working women, which includes the problems of women directors...
...running out of resources," Bigelow Professor of Ichthyology Karel F. Liem said this week. Liem teaches Biological Sciences 2, which grew dramatically this year--one of a number of science courses with rapidly increasing enrollment...
...they could apply as well to a movie like POINT BREAK. No picture could be handsomer. The camera moves with bold, often devious assurance; action sequences are as sleekly muscled as the torsos of the film's jock hero (Keanu Reeves) and surfer villain (Patrick Swayze). Director Kathryn Bigelow has few peers at this aerobic cinema, as she proved a few years back with the weird, beautiful Near Dark. Here, though, limning the attempts of FBI agent Reeves to infiltrate Swayze's beach-bum bank gang, Bigelow often forsakes her wits. Naked babe nukes G-men. Hero weakly abets heist...
...Donato, Ciavaglia) 9:19; 4, P, Sean Murphy (Andre Faust, Andy Cesarski) 13:01; 5, P, Mike Cole (Todd Shimabukuro) 19:04. Penalties--P, Cesarski (tripping) 9:11; H, Sean McCann (slashing) 12:00; H, Kevin Sneddon (roughing) 16:15; H, McCann (high-sticking) 16:15; P, Brian Bigelow (high-sticking) 16:15; P, Gaustad (roughing) 16:15; P, Rob LaFerriere (delay of game...