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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once upon a time, the jazz or jazz-inflected scores for movies like A Streetcar Named Desire and The Man with the Golden Arm were breakthroughs. Today the sound of a saxophone wailing in the night is as tired a film noir cliche as the battered fedora--the stuff of Carol Burnett sketches. But Blanchard, a trumpet player and film composer himself, finds new beauty and wit in the originals, fashioning mini-suites from the above-mentioned scores (and others) that shift between cinematic lushness and small-group drive. Blanchard's bruised, lyrical solo on Chinatown is a highlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz In Film | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...Across town, in Belmont, Young prepares to leave, putting on his topcoat, and fedora...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Armenians, History and Religion | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

Across town, in Belmont, Young prepares to leave, putting on his topcoat, and fedora...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Immigrant Experience | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

...seem so human, which has always been one of our goals at TIME. In America, more than in any other nation, we like to think of our leaders not as mysterious monarchs but as regular neighbors. Walk a few blocks to the old Truman home, and there's his fedora hanging on a rack in the hall where he left it after his last stroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidents on Parade | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...written by David Mamet. Dreyfuss gets to spit out some Mametian wisdom--"People dislike what they envy"--but mostly Dreyfuss and the movie are sluggish, as old Meyer dawdles through his memories. What's left is a gallery of dark haberdashery and hard faces. Still, a tip of the fedora to the reliably fabulous Beverly d'Angelo (as a brassy Mrs. Lansky) and to Eric Roberts (Bugsy Siegel). Roberts smiles and snarls through a visage of cracked pottery, or cracked poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lansky | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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