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...Communist Party loyalists, others because students deemed them incompetent or uninspiring. At Prague's Academy of Fine Arts, students have , dismissed all but two of their 39 instructors. They have hired an outspoken new rector: Milan Knizak, 50, a long-haired multimedia artist who sports three earrings in each ear. Knizak has rejected the school's slogan, which said the purpose of art was to help build socialism. Declares Knizak: "The artist is responsible only to himself...
...biggest party of the year, Kid (Christopher Reid) is grounded because of his bad report card. What's Kid to do? Sneak out, of course. Writer-director Reggie Hudlin gives zip and lots of laughs to this sharp, hip-hop comedy that blends a John Hughes-like ear for dialogue with the visual flair of Spike...
...task of gathering many of the items and tracking down the accuracy of the section falls to reporter-researcher David Ellis. Known to colleagues as "Mr. Insider," Ellis has a keen ear for odd information and irreverent observation and is a storehouse of facts about the famous and infamous. He fondly recalls, for example, that Jimi Hendrix had a disastrous turn as an opening act for the Monkees in 1967. As comfortable with sports trivia as he is with political arcana, Ellis considers 1972 a noteworthy year because a New York Yankee (Rich McKinney) made four errors in one game...
...filmmakers would seem less likely candidates for TV than Lynch. His first feature, Eraserhead, was a dreamlike horror story about a couple taking care of a monstrous mutant baby. Blue Velvet, his bizarre 1986 black comedy, started with a severed ear and descended into sadomasochistic horror. Trained as a painter, Lynch has written song lyrics and directed a performance piece, Industrial Symphony No. 1, featuring a midget sawing wood and dozens of baby dolls lowered from the ceiling...
...consequential or colorful ever happened there, she makes things up. To her, this is putting history to the best possible use, as inspirational contrast to what she sees as the grayness of modern life. Her employers at a preservation trust naturally disagree, and she is tossed out on her ear...