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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasons smokers give for smoking,they know it poses obvious health risks and otherside effects like gross breath and yellow teeth.This means they must constantly deal with friends'objections. One of the "pack-a-day" smokers of theSmelly Rock Smoking Club knows this annoyance onlytoo well. "My non-smoking boyfriend no longer asksme to quit because he'd rather put up with mynasty habit than my mood swings from trying toquit," she says. Burns, on the other hand, is arealist. "I don't mind friends' criticism toomuch," she says, "because I know they have apoint...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: the great equalizer | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...Stephen Macaulay's heralded novel about the complex and unique relationship between a pregnant New York woman and her gay roommate. At a dinner party, George Hanson (Paul Rudd) learns from Nina (Jennifer Aniston), a total stranger, that he's about to be dumped by his college professor boyfriend (a disastrously miscast Tim Daly). Fortunately, Nina is sympathetic and almost unrealistically trusting, offering him the spare room in her Brooklyn apartment. George accepts Nina's generous invitation--and their relationship predictably begins...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Highlighting Stereotypes is Not Funny | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...movie uses a series of montages saturated with stereotypes to track the "developing" friendship of Nina and George. (They go to amusement parks. They watch videos together in makeshift slumber parties. And, yes, they go dancing.) The complication, of course, is Nina's boyfriend, Vince (John Pankow), an outspoken civil liberties lawyer who naturally resents George's intrusion. Tension builds until the bomb explodes: Nina announces her pregnancy and her desire to raise the baby with George instead of Vince...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Highlighting Stereotypes is Not Funny | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...title of the movie.) Even worse, the script is unsure of itself-the declarations of love between various sets of characters are intolerably stilted. When Wasserstein tries to create intensely emotional moments between George and his significant others, the movie degenerates entirely. (One exchange between George and his professor boyfriend might have been read off of cue cards...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Highlighting Stereotypes is Not Funny | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...going to ask you? What are you going to wear? How much is it going to cost? Is that, your boyfriend with what's-her-face? Have you had too much to drink? Donna Martin Graduates! 'Nuff said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

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