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...Colossal Youth. If so, this would be the upset of the movie millennium. Variety's Justin Chang described the film as "a numbing, nearly three-hour fusion of documentary and dramatic essay that will hold the Portuguese director's coterie of fans in rapt attention while proving a colossal bore to everyone else...
...Linklater, though, can be credited with two achievements. For one thing, he has made the first close adaptation of a Dick novel (Blade Runner had many epiphanies, but it bore only a superficial resemblance to the author's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). For another, he has underlined the similarities of two decades marked by governmental snooping into its citizens' business and brains: the 70s, when the Nixon White House amassed a long Enemies List and used the FBI and its own resources to get dirt on suspected troublemakers, and our own, when anyone's telephone chats and email...
...years and loses us at about year 65, and induce Elton John to write a score that (except for one lively rock number in the second act, in which a tween-age vampire cries for ?More?) sounds instinguishable from Broadway's usual power-pop Muzak? Lestat is a predictable bore, sometimes a laughable one. Only redeeming feature: it prompts some retrospective kind thoughts for two previous vampire musicals - Jim Steinman's Dance of the Vampires and Frank Wildhorn's Dracula, both of which had more going for them...
...Ananta Toer, 81, acerbic, leftist Indonesian novelist and dissident; in Jakarta. Detained in 1965 by the anticommunist Suharto regime, he wrote his most famous work, the Buru Quartet, while imprisoned. The series of books chronicled Indonesia's battle for independence from Dutch colonialists, who in the writer's eye bore a striking similarity to Suharto. Freed from house arrest in 1992, he remained an outspoken critic of corrupt Indonesian governments until his death...
...have to look someplace else for that. It’s kind of disappointing.” Yesterday, during the outdoor May Day Fair, a steady stream of pedestrians walked up to the door trying to enter the store. Instead, the locked door bore a sign that informed them of the store’s closing. Until May 31, Harnett’s will have reduced hours. The store will be closed on Sundays, and it will close at 7 p.m. during the rest of the week—two hours earlier than before. “We would like...