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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machine was not functioning, the off-button was dysfunctional," he said. "The machine had to be turned off at the fuse box by my friend...
...friend he met in broadcasting, Andrew Heiskell, then chair of the board, who first introduced the idea of being an overseer...
...Harvard University has lost the friend of a lifetime," President Neil L. Rudenstine said...
...Soderbergh (sex, lies and videotape, Out of Sight) challenges genre by remolding the "revenge film" as a neo-noir. English ex-convict Wilson (Terence Stamp) flies to Los Angeles after his prison release to avenge his daughter Jenny's death. Starting with the facts and speculations offered by her friend Ed (Luis Guzman), Wilson stalks a string of criminals he believes are responsible for her mysterious and fatal car crash, eventually confronting high profile 60s record producer Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda). However, as the contrasts between the righteous Limey and slimy Valentine diminish with the film's progression, the epiphanic...
...same temporal distortion to sequences of individual shots. A shot of Wilson strolling past a building is replayed again and again, intercut with other shots of the avenging father contemplating his search. An uninterrupted conversation between Wilson and Elaine (Lesley Ann Warren), Jenny's former acting instructor and friend, is simultaneously played out over several disparate locations (his barren hotel room, her cozy residence, a classy restaurant, a low lit dock). Such scenes are more accurate depictions of Wilson's mentality and fantasies than his interactions with others or even reality itself. Into these prisms of then and now, Soderbergh...