Word: debut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore Tammy Shewchuck led the offense last season with 53 points, including an impressive 38 goals in her collegiate debut...
...movie's strongest points is the role of Shen Yeulin, the female court-appointed defense attorney for Moore, played by Bai Ling, making an impressive debut in American cinema. She at first is part of the overwhelming uphill battle Moore must fight to prove his innocence, as she is not convinced of his claim and tells him that a guilty plea will yield more leniency. The way that she eventually becomes convinced of Moore's story and becomes a staunch ally and hard-fighting friend on his side is genuinely touching...
...good time to be a McCartney. First, STELLA MCCARTNEY's debut show for the French fashion house Chloe drew kind reviews, and not just from Mom and Dad, who led the standing ovation when Stella came out to take her bows. They must have had a parental sixth sense. "The part that terrified me most was just walking down that runway," said Stella afterward. Critics described McCartney's lacy, feminine clothes as a "happy hodgepodge" of pieces with "gentle flourishes"--not unlike what some generous souls say about PAUL MCCARTNEY's musical compositions. His latest, Standing Stone, took four years...
Writer-director Andrew Niccol, a New Zealander up out of commercials and making his debut in features, is less successful with the big things than he is with these little ones. His vision of a heavily sanitized and overrational future is perhaps inevitably more chilly than chilling. And since emotion has been bred out of most of the people he's concerned with, the movie's relationships--notably a romance between Vincent and a co-worker played by Uma Thurman--tend to be distant and not very involving...
...intriguing premise that goes a long way toward making an impressive though uneven feature film debut for writer-director Andrew Niccol. Gattaca, unfortunately, fails to explore the subtler ramifications and genuinely disturbing socio-economic implications of the situation it introduces. This lack is less than satisfactorily replaced by the individual drama it centers on instead--it's the old, old story of the lone hero who refuses to play the hand that's dealt...