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...that I wouldn't like Little Nicky, Sandler's latest sure-fire box office behemoth. The SNL alum indeed performs the 83-minute-long film with an annoying, muffled speech impediment. And yes, recently Sandler's movies have become increasingly obnoxious and mainstream. Top it all off with a dull tag line-If Your Mom was an Angel and Your Father was the Devil You'd Be Messed Up Too-and you have yourself a motion picture with quite a bit going against it. That said, I immensely enjoyed Little Nicky, a heartwarming story about the devil (Harvey Keitel...

Author: By Dan Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Little Nicky Provides Big Laughs | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...onto No Exit. Six people arrive separately at a Paris restaurant in response to a mysterious dinner invitation; all are divorced couples, it turns out, who proceed to hash over their failed marriages. Despite the energizing presence of TV vets John Ritter and Henry Winkler, the evening is a dull connect-the-dots game, where the final picture still looks like just a bunch of dots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Dinner Party | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...notes sounding just right. My account of mixing, then, in short: Matthew flipped this and that, we discussed this and that and suddenly, we had an album. It was a brilliant moment, albeit late at night, when my exhaustion only allowed me to register it with a dull thud of a smile. Needless to say, we still managed to make it over to the Hong Kong for a scorpion bowl to celebrate. The straws were extra long and the drink extra smooth...

Author: By Ty Gibbons, | Title: That Was Great, Now Do It Again | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...That was not enough to run against. With those clothes, Gore could run as a dull Clark Kent whose biggest sin would be his lumbering and pious integrity. The Bush team had to find a way to make this uncharismatic cipher take on the hue of Clinton. Gore's chameleon-like approach to the campaign played into their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This May Be a Pre-Mortem of the 2000 Campaign | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...swords, whose scabbards and other fittings were always adorned with lacquer. Clearly too he liked innovations in technique that may seem small to us but, in the tradition-bound and slow-moving context of Japanese art and design, were quite significant. One was the near alchemical contrast of dull lead inlay and bright gold detail on black lacquer in works like the beautiful writing box named Ashibune, or "Reed Boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Subtle Magic of Koetsu | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

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