Word: biz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director is Stanley Tong), but they will gasp at Chan's lithe, lightning reflexes when he takes on five creeps in a deli or executes a jump from one high building to another. You watch these impossible stunts with fear and gratitude for the hardest-working man in show biz. To see your first Jackie Chan movie is to fall in love with what the movies once were: a comic ballet of bodies in motion...
Movies like this used to have lots of singing and dancing, not to mention Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. But if you love show-biz fables in which the desperate improvisations of sweet-souled egomaniacs are rewarded by improbable last-minute success, writer-director Kenneth Branagh's A Midwinter's 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...
...Movies like this used to have lots of singing and dancing, not to mention Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "But if you love show-biz fables in which the desperate improvisations of sweet-souled egomaniacs are rewarded by improbable last-minute success, writer-director Kenneth Branagh's 'A Midwinter's Tale' is a very acceptable update." Especially if you like Woody Allen. Branagh has adopted a number of Allen's mannerisms in shooting this story of a half a dozen profoundly marginalized English actors determined to put on a play. "Branagh sometimes sacrifices bite...
...score, I think he got fooled by the President. He just had never dealt with someone with his kind of ability before." As for the freshmen, maybe they had it coming. "A lot of us became zealots," said Bono. "We got a lot of ink, and coming from show biz, I know that a funny thing about ink is you start buying your own publicity. Some members miscalculated and thought it was their own power, when in fact it was given to them. And today was a day of discovery on the part of some freshmen. This...
...decision, which is unanimous, is that the chips taste like chips. Not bad chips (each of us takes another) but not jim-dandy chips, either. Mouth feel, I would say, is about right. (This is no joke in the snack-food biz; successful mouth-feel technicians retire to seaside mansions.) Finger feel is pretty good too. Pick up a chip and your thumb and forefinger get greasy, just as nature intended...