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...providing the masses with everything from movies, music and television shows to theme parks and tacky gifts, Universal Studios has indicated a return to its film production roots with the re-release of Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Perfectly timed to debut at the Silver Anniversary of the Telluride Film Festival--incidentally a festival founded by a film archivist--the restoration effort presumably targets our recent resurgence of interest in Americana by restoring a figure, much maligned in his time, to his much deserved position of authority...
Penn began the season with tough road games, losing to William and Mary, Old Dominion, Dartmouth, B.U., and Cornell by a combined score of 8-2. But the Quakers bounced back in its home debut against Temple. It was head coach Brian "Rudy" Fuller's first...
McGwire became my hero after hitting just 49 homeruns in his first season with the Oakland Athletics, far less than his monstrous 70 this season, but an impressive debut nonetheless...
There may still be an American audience for McInerney's style of social commentary. A musical version of Bright Lights, Big City is scheduled to debut in January at the New York Theater Workshop, which also produced Rent. It opens with dancers popping out of bathroom stalls and singing I Love Drugs: "I love drugs/ And everything they do./ Don't you?/ I do." McInerney says it was the catchy songs that persuaded him to go ahead with the production. "At first I was like, 'Does the world really need this?' But then I heard the music and I said...
...altogether different fat chick," says Roseanne, comparing herself with Rosie O'Donnell. She's right. Her new talk show has none of the comfy good cheer of Rosie's; it's cruder, more sensational and also more serious. Mostly the debut was banal, if often profane, as Whoopi Goldberg pontificated about Monica Lewinsky and Roseanne interviewed a tiresome Linda Tripp impersonator. But Roseanne and Goldberg's conversation with three teenage mothers was surprisingly simple and affecting. Roseanne's emotions are not polished to an Oprah-like smoothness, and she can be appealingly authentic, in her rare quieter moments...