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...eerie echo of Jack Kerouac's rambunctious 1957 novel, On the Road, begins to sound about halfway through The Beach (Riverhead; 371 pages; $23.95), by British writer Alex Garland, 27. The reason it takes half of Garland's moody tale for Kerouac's ghost to tap the reader on the shoulder is that the feel of the two novels could not be more different. On the Road was loony, funny, electric; The Beach is listless, pallid, drifting without object...
That buzzing sound that woke you up at 8:30 last Tuesday was the echo of Oscar-buffs around the globe, scratching their chins and asking each other, "'Billy Bob' who? Is there a 'Billy Bob' here?" If you listened real hard, you could even hear "Clueless" Cher Horowitz piping, "This is California, not Kentucky!" All the same, Southern-born filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton has cut himself a big slice of the Hollywood pie. "Sling Blade"--nominated for Thornton's script and for his own starring performance--was, for some, the biggest surprise in a nomination field full of offbeat...
...hall. A student standing in the doorway began to shout a repetition of what the professor was saying to the students who were standing outside, so that those of us who had the privilege of being seated in the back of the classroom got to hear the class in echo form. At the same time, the crowd was so big that the A/V assistant could not get in the door, so the professor quickly replaced a lecture that was supposed to be based on slides with an inpromtu discussion of the plot summaries of all the semester's books...
...DeSoto. One can find endearment in the lame badinage of C-3PO, in Carrie Fisher's bagel-like hairdo, in the whining and bickering of the lead characters, in the varying pronunciations of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the planet Alderaan. The invocation to "trust your feelings" seems a woozy echo of the '67 Summer of Love, not the '77 summer of Wars, but Alec Guinness carries himself with the majesty of a Jedi knight and an acting peer. The climactic dogfight, copied in a quillion arcade games, has thrust and logic; it's the clearest, most potent narrative section...
...killed with some style. Then, with two minutes left in the period, RPI surrounded the Harvard net, but freshman goalie J.R. Prestifilippo (31 saves on the night) rejected three straight close-range shots, his last deflection sending the Crimson up the ice on its own offensive rush. With the echo of Prestifilippo's stick slapping against the ice, the battle cry sounded once more...