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...credits came on the screen and the beautiful jazz music Harlem is so famous for began to play, I heard a critic next to me whisper to his companion, "This is going to be "New Jack City Two."" While I have not seen "New Jack City," the original, I can see why my neighbor would say this. The subject matter, I have been told, is the same: the horror and entrapment of the drug trade. This would make sense since both "New Jack City" and "Sugar Hill" were written by Barry Michael Cooper. "Sugar Hill" merely makes it a cliche...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: 'Sugar Hill' too cloying | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

Even in real life, the man sounded witty and suave. According to "Halliwell's Filmgoer's and video Viewer's Companion," "When a journalist wired his agent, 'How old Cary Grant?', Grant himself replied: 'Old Cary Grant fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Catch a Movie Star | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...dazzling portrait of a dowager, whom she plays both in full command of her gilded domain and at the breaking point of senile decay. Marian Seldes, who won a 1967 Tony Award in Albee's A Delicate Balance, has never been better as a protective but peevish nurse- companion in the first act and the dowager herself in the second, which is a fantasy conversation among embodiments of the same woman at three stages of life. Jordan Baker, who plays a young lawyer and then the dowager at a callow 26, looks gorgeous but hasn't a clue what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albee Is Back | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

...only it had ended there. But now, every day, new permutations come flying in the door. If I go first class to Paris, I can bring a companion along free -- so long as she has the same itinerary. Having the same itinerary will probably mean the end of our friendship, but the offer does ensure that if I spend $6,846 on a ticket that would otherwise cost $768, I can get another ticket (for which I would have had to pay $768) for nothing. If I make five round trips to Taipei, a city I have always tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...living room a junior mogul was touting his new projects, among them a pirate epic and a film he described as an "Animal House for the '90s." "Hey, it's product line," his companion said sympathetically. "They can't all be gems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Redford's Mountain | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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