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...gives James (winningly played by Paul Terry) a mission: to find his dream city, a Deco-delicious Manhattan. Spider (voiced by Susan Sarandon) here has the melancholy hauteur of a Garbo femme fatale; and the Centipede, obnoxious in the book, is now a Leo Gorcey type (voiced by Richard Dreyfuss), who gets a shot at redemption by fighting a shipful of skeleton pirates straight out of Ray Harryhausen's The 7th Voyage of Sinbad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TAKING OUT THE BUGS | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

...characters referred to in their film's title (Sean Penn is the "Dead Man Walking"). That may get you the nomination but not the award. The favorite in this race is Nicolas Cage for his role in "Leaving Las Vegas." And he would be my choice as well. Richard Dreyfuss? Big deal, so he ages 30 years in two hours in "Mr. Holland's Opus." Anthony Hopkins? Good, but not good enough; and he just won not long ago for "Silence of the Lambs." Massimo Troisi? He was good but a little annoying, and everyone knows that he was nominated...

Author: By Nicole Columbus, | Title: Oscar Preview: "You Like Me! You Really Like Me!" | 3/21/1996 | See Source »

...warned: you will cry while watching Mr. Holland's Opus, directed by Stephen Herek (The Mighty Ducks) and starring Richard Dreyfuss as a music teacher at an Oregon high school. You may be inspired by the movie's Wonderful Life message: that we can do good--help people, enrich lives--in a job we thought was a shoddy compromise with our career dreams. You could leave the dodecaplex feeling better about academe, Hollywood and your own warm, sensitive self. But know this: you should feel bad about feeling good, because Mr. Holland's Opus takes meretricious short cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FEEL-GOOD? NO, FEEL BAD! | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...Give Dreyfuss points for schlepping this load. Making effective use of his trademark dimple, braying giggle and comic exasperation with a world of slow learners, he takes teacher Glenn Holland through three decades of Americana, from Vietnam to 1995. Holland has a wife (Glenne Headly), a deaf son and, it turns out, a vocation for helping the young understand themselves through music. He becomes their drill sergeant, father confessor, patron saint. As the years pass, his students follow their stars while he, a frustrated composer, pours his ambition into them. It's the ambitious teacher's tragedy: your kids move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FEEL-GOOD? NO, FEEL BAD! | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

Female musicians with a cannily erotic appeal could always be found--in the movies. Think of Ingrid Bergman, who played the femme fatale pianist who broke up Leslie Howard's marriage in the 1939 movie Intermezzo, or Amy Irving, who went mano a mano on the ivories with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980's The Competition. Prominent women instrumentalists have been much rarer in real life. During the first half of the 20th century, the severely beautiful Erica Morini, who died last month at 91, was one of the few who could lay claim to first-rank status. And Morini bristled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SEDUCTIVE STRINGS | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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