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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Platinum is a sweet, glamorous indulgence--like eating fancy chocolates before bedtime. Ross's achingly good performance gives the movie an emotional core. There's a well-acted scene in which Ross's character is asked if she has any regrets. Are there any choices in Ross's long career...
In Double Platinum, fans of the good-girl Brandy will be glad to note that her character does not rob any banks or try to whack her mother. But her acting does show off some unexpected shadings. As a singer, Brandy's voice is slight, too weak-kneed to carry...
Brandy's biggest fear is losing her stardom in scandal: "I'm scared of ever making one mistake where tabloids and magazines can make me look like something I've never been." So far, though, her life has been pretty much an embarrassment-free dream. Her latest record, Never S...
This is one big mama of a book, its very size a hint of its ambition. Put the same characters and story into 250 pages, which Andersen could easily have done, and you'd have an amusing satire; at 659 pages, you're trying to create something Important. There are...
Words won her the Pulitzer for The Shipping News, no question. The novel itself doesn't really track. The main character is gaumless in the first chapters and a functioning human male at the end, simply because the author has decreed a character transplant. But Proulx's language does not...