Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mayor does not "like" anyone. He simply recognizes the Yankee owner as a trustworthy and fair-minded sports executive whose goal is to exchange the musty old Yankee Stadium that New Yorkers find so sterile and bland for a sparkling modern entertainment venue in a more affluent district, one closer to theme restaurants and uninfested by rude squeegee...
...pretension and detachment, it also recalls its Sundance precursor for its literate dialogue, nuanced portrayals and admirable breadth of vision. Cholodenko would have done well to decide early on if her film was about three women artists or about Art as embodied in three women; her title implies a closer sympathy with the broader, less intimate project. all the same, Sheedy and Cholodenko especially more than prove their mettle, giving us hope that their talents and potential will come to fuller flower than the story suggests is possible. Like Sheedy's Lucy, Cholodenko will do great things with her camera...
...suited Jake Holman may or may not have inspired the Village People to record "In the Navy") getting an appreciative look from a missionary's daughter as he boards his Yankee gunboat. Leave it, three hours and and a lot of great scenery later, with the perfect throat-wrenching closer: "What the hell happened...
Though the company billed its new Carmen as the next best thing to a rock concert, the results were closer in style to a rip-roaring Broadway show, an impression strengthened by the use of Bizet's original opera-comique version, in which the dialogue is spoken rather than sung, and a refreshingly colloquial English translation by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof). Updated it was, but dumbed down it wasn't. Assaf made her dramatic points with crisp simplicity and no pandering whatsoever. No less direct was the Carmen of mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman, a fire-eating singing actress...
...Mainland China will find it very difficult to maintain the nationalism and hegemonism that it relies on now for its rule. Society on the mainland will become more pluralized. In that case, cross-strait relations will grow closer than at present...