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Mystic River--written by Brian Helgeland, from the Dennis Lehane best seller--begins on a Boston street in the late '70s. Three boys are fooling around when a man who seems to be a police detective orders one of the boys, Dave, into a car. For days, Dave is held captive and sexually abused. A quarter-century later, all three of the old pals bear scars. Dave (Tim Robbins) is not so much the walking wounded as the walking dead, a zombie with a caring sadness. Sean (Kevin Bacon), now a cop, watched his wife walk...
...Mexican hit Amores Perros and taxes credulity with its pileup of fatal coincidences. Mystic River has a case of wandering accents (sometimes South Boston, sometimes West Hollywood) and plods toward its conclusion more like a tired cop than a cunning detective. Its sharpest characters are the soft, doomed Dave, in a beautifully modulated turn by Robbins, and Jimmy's wife Annabeth, played by Laura Linney as Lady Bountiful on the outside, Lady Macbeth within...
Only Nick Blannin ’03 and senior Dave Stephens, who is taking a year off to train with the Canadian national team, have left holes to be filled as the team prepares to defend its title, which is easier said than done...
...Dave Matthews...
...could almost feel sorry for Mr. Matthews—few artists face the same comparisons he does on Some Devil, his first solo outing. These he neatly sidesteps by opting for a sound that is clearly distinct from Dave Matthews Band (DMB), recruiting a horn section and employing some lush string arrangements. Throughout, the spotlight stays resolutely on Matthews’ voice, by turns growling and sweetly falsetto...