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...tale of infidelity and voodoo in the Louisiana bayous, but graciously hands the story to the the film's lesser known actresses, including Debbi Morgan as a clairvoyant haunted by her powers and Jurnee Smollett as his precocious daughter. Director and writer Kasi Lemmons, herself an actress, demonstrates a distinct maturity in this dark, hypnotic tale...
...Bosserts have been active in shaping residential life at the College through practice and policy. They were stalwart opponents of the randomized housing policy implemented in 1996, which critics feared would lead to the end of distinct House characters...
...preferences have gone nowhere in Congress. Affirmative-action foes won big in California last year with Proposition 209, but that victory has turned out to be difficult to repeat in other states. The federal judiciary, however, is proving far more receptive. Two years ago, the Supreme Court showed a distinct willingness to strike down minority-business set-aside programs. And in Hopwood v. Texas, a challenge to affirmative action at the University of Texas Law School, a federal appeals court held that race cannot be used as a factor in admissions...
...what wit the characters do have. With the exception of Bryan W. Leach '00 as the staunchly paranoid Yossariar everyone in the cast exhudes two distinct talents: the ability to play a number of extremely different characters, and the ability to make each of them as delightfully absurd as possible. The script itself a tight-laced tango of double entendred and hysterically ironic scenarios, could only be mastered by a group of actor with impeccable comic timing and greaversatility. Particularly notable are Jame A. Carmichael '01 as the dry Lt. Co-Korn; Michael P. Davidson '00 as the stereotypical Italian...
This wouldn't be a problem if Mad City weren't such a character-driven piece. Echoing Billy Wilder's 1952 Ace In The Hole, the film aligns two distinct personalities--the hardened reporter and the simple, down-on-his-luck everyman--and pits them both against the senseless juggernaut of popular culture. "This movie is about people," Gavras says, and the people who star in it are indeed its finest assets. Dustin Hoffman plays Max Brackett, a hotshot national news reporter who has been demoted to a backwater affiliate station in northern California after a mysterious incident involving celebrity...