Word: ende
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Readers of Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Angela's Ashes, may have wondered from whence the title of the book came. Upon seeing the film, it becomes clear that the title refers to the ashes that grow on the end of the cigarettes that Angela, McCourt's mother, smokes continuously as she worries her way through poverty, saddled with several children and an alcoholic husband who can't seem to hold...
...end, the many voiceovers quoting directly from the book simply aren't sufficient to transfer the spirit, humor and pathos from the page to the screen. While multiple themes may have worked in the book, they take away from any strong focus the film might have had. Parker should have chosen from a few of the many themes that run wild through the movie: the father/son relationship, religion, storytelling, education, poverty and class struggles are all jumbled together in a coming-of-age format. Instead of being rabidly faithful to the book and trying to include four out of every...
...thrill of hearing where Stereolab is going next, whether it's a casting out for funkier shores or spending a night in with Burt Bacharach and martinis. The next stop on their magical mystery tour? Soul. Not James-Brown-soul, although the drawn-out, reverb ad infinitum song endings the band took to performing at the Roxy do recall the virtuoso rock-outs that end so many soul anthems. This was soul as in a little jump start, an extra pumping in the veins...
...anonymous Boston woman has donated five literary works owned by Monroe to Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library. All authored by American women, the books will be on display at the library through the end of January...
...look damn good on MTV when you have a different designer outfit on every day. And more importantly, six months laterafter your tortuous sojournyou pack your boxes to send home with six months worth of designer outfits....Jennifer Lopez recently proclaimed that she could sell coffee using my rear-end as a ledge. And she's trying to get respect as an actress?....We sent two writers to cover WWF Smackdown at ringside this past Tuesday. The catch? One was a red-blooded American male, a guy who watches Smackdown each week and knows the wrestlers by name. The other...