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9. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE: My Personal Beef with Mr.Steve Albini: Steve called Surfer Rosa, thefirst album by the Pixies and an album notincidentally produced by Steve-o himself, "apatchwork pinch loaf from a band who at their topdollar best are blandly entertaining collegerock." This really angers up the blood. SurferRosa is...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Steve Albini Primer for the Young Folk | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

As such, Apt Pupil would seem to be a thriller that hovers somewhere between tolerable and entertaining. What's troubling, though, is that Dussander is a former S.S. officer, and this cat in an oven acts as an obvious metaphor for the six million Jews who were murdered in the...

Author: By John T. Meier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nazis Lurk in Stephen King's Suburbs | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

That's the not-so-hidden agenda of Pleasantville, an epic-size, largely entertaining parable of repression and awakening from writer-director Gary Ross. The movie imagines that two teenagers, David (Tobey Maguire) and his randy sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), are magically transported from the '90s into the small, sleepy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shading the Past | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Horror movies these days tend to be self-referential disasters, as though knowing and admitting that a movie is boring and predictable makes it less so. Not Bride of Chucky. Miraculously, this ridiculous gem has made it through the po-mo silliness that infects so many movies these days and...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GET LUCKY: SEE `CHUCKY' | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

Even though it's the commercial aspects of Rowers World that keep it afloat, Fallows and Kibera are determined to keep it entertaining. "On a conceptual level, we're just like a magazine," said Fallows. "To sell things, you've got to have good content first, or the rowers won...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fallows and Friends Launch Rowing Web Site | 10/20/1998 | See Source »

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