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...Blues follows Woody Allen and his seven-member jazz band along their 1996 springtime tour of Europe. If that synopsis sounds like material for a three-minute "Entertainment Tonight" profile, then kudos go out immediately to Kopple, who knows that Allen's career as a jazzman is not a fluff-level footnote to his more obvious engagement in the cinema. Her feature-length documentary has already been faulted by some viewers at Sundance for downplaying Woody-as-Filmmaker, a criticism that misses Wild Man Blues's whole point: Woody Allen considers himself a developing musician who's lucky to have...
...looking plenty expensive. Based on estimated 1998 earnings, and relative to the S&P 500, stock prices for 24 major banks that Berry tracks are at their highest levels in 20 years. That leaves them vulnerable to a turn in the economy. And because so much of the stocks' fluff reflects hopes for a takeover, if the pace of bank deals slows for any reason, the stocks could...
That home-like feeling is probably the Co-op's number-one advantage. As Ana Morrel-Samuels '00 remarked wryly, "there are no people in uniforms running around and wiping up." She comments also that "it gets rid of a lot of the social fluff that goes on in Houses and can make you feel really lonely." The small kitchen table is certainly a far cry from the melee of house dining halls, which few residents seem to miss. For the most part, they consider themselves dissatisfied with Harvard in one way or another, feeling like the administration focuses...
...weather, few stars, fluff: Ratings off 40% from...
...McKellan, who originated the role of Max 20 years ago in the stage premier of Bent that won him an Olivier, is luminous in a later cameo as Max's Uncle Freddie. Freddie is a "fluff" like Max, but he's one who has chosen to play it safe by repressing his desires. And, fortunately, several of the play's most powerfully written moments have translated well to film. Especially remarkable is a pivotal scene in Dachau in which Max and Horst, forbidden to touch and kept under the ever-vigilant eye of their guard, make love to each other...