Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single admirer rather than the thousands they once entertained. This make-shift stage, with its single spotlight, bears an eerie resemblance to the interrogation rooms of the Communists, giving the reunion an ominous feel that is heightened by the underlying music. When the flashbacks to the ex-stars' boyhood begin, Kaige is careful to inform his viewers of the historical time periods to prevent confusion, and chooses his locales with a feel for realism and authenticity...
Soderbergh's adaptation of A.E. Hotchner's novel-memoir is episodic, and that mutes the melodrama inherent in Aaron's encounters with crime, illness and loss. Aaron must improvise his response to events without fully understanding them, and that comes closer to the truth about boyhood than most movies do. It was a directorial mistake to bathe the images in a soft glow. But that visual error is not compounded psychologically. The film has a tough core, and in a time when movies about the troubles of little boys are a sentimental subgenre and dysfunction is being too easily overcome...
CINEMA Woody Allen returns to pure comedy in Manhattan Murder Mystery, but he seems distracted. King of the Hill takes a tough-minded look at boyhood during the Depression. MUSIC Clint Black sings radio-ready country pop that has a splash of introspection. From Britain's Gavin Bryars comes a minimalist milestone. THEATER That spunky orphan is back, but in Annie Warbucks, her appeal is much scaled down. BOOKS Showdown at Opal Creek is a clear, sensitive account of the timber wars in Oregon and the fate of the last old- growth stands...
...good people." This was one of the few observations Vincent Foster Jr., the 48-year-old deputy White House counsel, allowed himself to make about how Washington had chipped away at his psyche after he joined the Clinton Administration. Last Tuesday afternoon, six months to the day since his boyhood friend had taken the oath of office and everything seemed possible for the men from Hope, Foster passed through the iron gate of the White House in his gray Nissan, crossed the Potomac River to a Civil War fort preserved as a national park in Virginia, and apparently...
Clinton had started the week uncertainly, braving shouts of "Draft dodger!" and "Shut up, coward!" at his ceremonial Memorial Day visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The President, who knelt to make a rubbing of the name of a boyhood friend, James Herbert Jeffries, also received some applause...