Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bench--for now--is freshman Javy Lopez, who suffered a near-career-ending eye injury while throwing batting practice during fall workouts...
...bench--for now--is freshman Javy Lopez, who suffered a near-career-ending eye injury while throwing batting practice during fall workouts...
Peter Weir, The Truman Show. Peter is in trouble for a few reasons. First, Truman was released months before any of the other nominees. The film has been out of the public eye for too long, and the lack of current hype will take its toll. Second: since the film was Jim Carrey's break-through dramatic role, viewers remember this cautionary tale as an actor's triumph, not that of a director. Third, and most damning: Weir did a good job directing Truman, but perhaps he was too good for his own good (say that five times fast...
...Steven Spielberg. The Academy loves to reward Spielberg for taking on serious themes. And why not? The fact that he does films like Jurassic Park 2 simply highlights the highflown goals of a movie like this. Saving Private Ryan is every bit the directorial triumph. However, keep an eye out for a dark horse-scads of film critics' organizations have been giving Best Picture to Spielberg while reserving directorial honors for quirky, Harvard-educated Malick...
...many of them built tiny "Sunday houses"--weekend cottages that are not a lot bigger than a child's garden playhouse. Now the area is host to home restorers like the Mileses, as well as visitors coming to poke into craft and antiques shops and dance the Cotton-Eye Joe at the famous Gruene Dance Hall, where Garth Brooks once played. One of the attractive qualities of this historic town is that the old and the young kick up their heels side by side...