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...final chance at making a new buddy lies in a boorish looking gent named Philip who is old enough to be a grad student (it turns...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Video Killed the Radial Star | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...effective as the affably cocky Rockefeller, and Bill Murray and Joan Cusack hit both comic highs and notes of genuine sadness. Less successful are Vanessa Redgrave, who's garishly over the top, and Susan Sarandon, who acts mostly with her eyebrows and strained Italian accent. As Welles, MacFadyen is boorish and obnoxious, and Robbins has already been chastised by some for so pervasively emphasizing the famous director's hamfisted side...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Robbins' Cradle: It Rocks, It Rolls, It's Riveting | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...grappling with, and perhaps smoothing over, the complexities of a man whose only legacy was his music. Allen says of his creation: He was funny. Or if funny is the wrong word, sort of pathetic in a way. I mean he was flamboyant and he was boorish and obnoxious. The documentary conceit has the effect of making the story feel distant and made-up, but it also allows the screenplay to be uninhibited about making the characters into pure flights of fancy, without worrying too much about contradiction or consistency. The movie is more interested in portraying what we might...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: Sweet Lacks Flavor | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...emboldened, he embellished his persona package, at times a bandannaed pirate, at times the Punisher, who displayed a boorish attitude along with an admirably vicious game. He won another Grand Slam event, the 1995 Australian Open, and was cruising along as a bad-boy Numero Uno until he was again knocked into Kingdom Comeback by Sampras, who had more tools than a Swiss Army knife. Sampras administered a straight-set thrashing in the U.S. Open finals that cracked Agassi's karma, causing him to question whether tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Open: The Many Faces Of Agassi | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...talk about your male-dominated, boorish, belching and beer-bellied sports media all you want, but nobody had to twist Foudy's very strong arm to get her to pose for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's swimsuit issue. And then there was defender Brandi Chastain, severely out of uniform in Gear magazine. That picture won her a trip to the Late Show, where David Letterman subtly, delicately expressed what was on America's mind. The U.S. team, said the ever sensitive host, was "Babe City," a metropolis populated by "Soccer Mamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye to Heroin Chic. Now It's Sexy to Be Strong | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

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