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ANTWONE FISHER. Denzel Washington’s directorial debut recounts the life of its screenwriter and title character. Abused verbally by his foster mother and sexually by his foster father, Fisher later avoids dismissal from the military by agreeing to psychiatric counseling with Dr. Jerome Davenport (Washington), who helps him overcome his difficult past. If a side-plot involving a patient potential love interest (Joy Bryant) makes Antwone Fisher Good sound like Good Will Hunting, Washington’s film similarly benefits from strong acting and its hopeful depiction of a tormented youth on the verge of adulthood. Antwone Fisher...
...Elvis made his national TV debut in January 1956 on the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey "Stage Show," preceded by a number in which 12 chorine danced while playing xylophones. Just before he came on stage, Cleveland DJ Bill Randle uttered these inflated but prescient words: "We think tonight that he's going to make television history for you. We'd like you to meet him now: Elvis Presley...
...never to use the phrase "internal control"--shorthand for the fundamentals behind auditing--again. He said he didn't understand it, says a WorldCom employee. But that is like asking a weatherman not to use the word forecast. So Cooper huddled her small team together and planned their debut. She called Ebbers, Sullivan and a few others to a meeting in the main conference room. She was going to force them to see what an audit department could do for their bottom line...
...Town: modesty. He lets other actors take the limelight, especially Frank Converse and Jeffrey DeMunn, as the fathers of the young lovers; Stephen Spinella, who writes his own play in a couple of vivid scenes as the drunken choirmaster; and Maggie Lacey, who makes a fetching Broadway debut as Emily. Aside from adding some understated sound effects--a newspaper plopping on the porch, the bell when a soda fountain's front door opens and shuts--director James Naughton leaves the play alone. And left alone, it is as moving as ever...
...French fashion house. Her successor and friend, Phoebe Philo, was regarded as a talented designer, but she was not exactly a household name. The fashion world loves nothing better than a catfight; speculation immediately began about a competition between the two women, and intensified when McCartney's solo debut proved a disaster. (Her subsequent collections won praise.) Philo's work for Chloé quickly wowed the fashion critics...