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This will only be seen as a "feelgood" movie bythose who can thank their stars that they're notBritish. But Leigh somehow manages to steer clearof unmitigated pessimism. There are some greatone-liners, for example Vivien's classic blunder:"I would like to propose a toast to mum's birthday'cos it may be her last." There is also, inCyril's enduring idealism and his tenderness forboth Shirley and his mother, a reminder of theimportance of maintaining "high hopes...
College kids--college radio kids, in particular--go on vacation in December and January, and don't listen to much new music (myself, of course, excepted). Probably as a result, very few new full-length "alternative" records get released between Thanksgiving and my birthday (January 6). This causes endless problems for me, since it means I don't get new records for my birthday; for this column, however, it's a virtue disguised as necessity. This week, I'll talk about some older records that have been hard to get until recently; next week--probably--the word of the week...
...inhale a cigarette and Daniel insists on improvising antismoking dialogue for the sequence, so that kids in the audience clearly understand the full horror of the noxious weed. Daniel goes on to lose his marriage when he arranges to bring an entire petting zoo into his house as a birthday-party treat for one of his three children. The resulting mess is the last straw for his wife Miranda (Sally Field, expertly walking the line between long-suffering exasperation and ineluctable affection...
Paris' Louvre Museum celebrated its 200th birthday with the inauguration of the Richelieu wing. This second phase of the museum's spectacular $1 billion renovation -- the dream of President Francois Mitterrand and the work of Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei -- nearly doubles the museum's exhibition space...
...sort of 30th birthday present to myself," he decided to write what would become "Zoo Story," his first play...