Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lifetime of stage wizardry can be poured into a screen character. In Apt Pupil he is, in director Bryan Singer's phrase, "an old, alcoholic, sitcom-watching Nazi" hiding in California anonymity 40 years after the war and amused to perform a facsimile of his old mischief on a curious teenager (Brad Renfro). As Whale in Bill Condon's film, McKellen is sunset charm incarnate, a gay man melting inside his decaying body for the gross, cheerful fellow (Brendan Fraser) who works in the garden. It's Chekhov in lavender...
...arrived at the 17th Avenue bus stop, a large crowd milled around preparing to march in memory of the uprising victims. Soon a youthful marching band, followed by dancers and brightly uniformed Little League teams, led off the procession as I joined a loose group of residents, activists, and curious onlookers who walked behind...
...oddly, the sloppy, scary pennant series with the Indians explains how the Yankees were able to do what they did all this remarkable year. John Sterling, the radio announcer, said it in his curious quaver 114 times: "The-uh-uh-uh Yankees win!" They have demonstrated that winning in baseball sometimes consists of perfect games and of grand-slam home runs, but more often of base stealing, of advancing runners in hit-and-run situations, of fouling off ball after ball until the pitcher gets careless, of studying the field like a botanist on every play, of watching and anticipating...
...equal parts hubris and desperation, it is a cross between a trade show, a film festival and a bazaar, and a far cry from what most people envision when they think of independent film: Matt Damon smoking cigars at a Miramax Oscar party. Since I had long been curious about the unsung breadth of no-budget filmmaking--the new American folk art?--off I went to the IFFM in search of cinema's slush pile...
...curious that polls show Americans heartily approve of the job Clinton is doing as President despite his conduct behind closed doors. But the American public is sending a message: As long as we make a lot of money, the character of the people leading us to the Valley of Plenty doesn't matter. JEREMIAH R. COLE Highland Heights...