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Both Joplin and Nyro (who died of cancer in 1997) are back together onstage, after a fashion--each being celebrated in a new off-Broadway show. In Eli's Comin', five performers (including golden-voiced Broadway vet Judy Kuhn) wend their way through a bookless compendium of 20 of Nyro's best-known songs. Though assembled into a very loose narrative (young girl arrives in New York City; by the end she's sharing confessions with what looks like a therapy group), the show works best--marvelously--as a showcase for Nyro's idiosyncratic and influential music, a lush, emotionally...
Artemis succeeds in obtaining the Book, a compendium of fairy rules and regulations, and then breaks its arcane coded hieroglyphs with the aid of his trusty Apple PowerBook. Next, he captures a real live fairy: Holly Short, a captain in the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police reconnaissance) detail. The fairy denizens gird to rescue one of their own, and guess who wins...
...gang dressed as Elvis impersonators robs a Las Vegas casino, then falls out. Kevin Costner is the dangerously deranged leader. Kurt Russell is the guy whose niceness develops under the impress of bloody, quick-cut, morally weightless mayhem. The movie means to be chic and hip, a compendium of all the latest visual mannerisms. Mostly it demonstrates how quickly they deteriorate into distancing cliches. Courteney Cox is good as a sexy, hard-pressed single mom, but she alone can't redeem the prevailing stupidity...
...year 2000 draws to a close, The Crimson hopes to offer a compendium of some of the most inane and oddest calls HUPD has received and responded to this year...
Inspired (a word that is bound to make realists queasy) by the real-life story of a man named Carl Brashear, who is played by Cuba Gooding Jr., the film is feverish in its desire to reduce his experiences to a compendium of cliches. Carl is, to begin with, the son of a black sharecropper. He joins the Navy in 1948, when the military is officially desegregated yet still confines men of his race to the galley. But he sees Navy divers being heroic and decides to join their ranks...