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...Spinning Gasing?a gasing is a Malay spinning top?follows the fortunes of 23-year-old DJ-wannabe Harry Lee (Craig Fong) when he returns to Malaysia after many years abroad. Dreaming of recording contracts, Harry pulls together a band that just happens to include a representative of each of the country's three major races, plus a Eurasian lead singer and a flamboyantly gay keyboardist, played by Edwin R. Sumun. The band's bassist, Yati, is a young Malay woman torn between her love for Harry and his Western ways and her conservative, highly religious family. Yati, played with...
...choosing to be true to the words, he's made a movie by the numbers. Stopping to admire his film's production design (good work by Stuart Craig), he slows the action down; it's often stodgy, humorless. His reaction shots are clumsy; each gives you just one piece of narrative or emotional information at a time. That doesn't help the three young stars, on whose slim shoulders the whole project rests; they are competent but charisma-free. The film lacks moviemaking buoyancy--the feeling of soaring in space that Rowling's magic-carpet prose gives the reader...
...recent documentary about Yale secret societies, The Skulls, has left many Harvard visitors worried. Apparently, the campus is fraught with pistol dueling, journalist killing, Provost-initiated vehicular manslaughter and Craig T. Nelson...
...Managers and coaches who do well at the Triple A level are also promoted. Tony LaRussa and Dave Duncan chose St. Louis as a location where they could perform in front of a Major League audience, rather than the Triple A atmosphere in Oakland. Mark McGwire followed, along with Craig Paquette, Willie McGee and Todd Stottlemyre. For all four of those players, St. Louis only traded one player that remained with Oakland for more than a year—TJ Matthews, a mediocre middle reliever. But Matthews is mediocre, not terrible, so he currently plays for—surprise?...
...Bruce Craig, director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that he anticipates a lawsuit challenging the order in the near future...