Word: gem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true gem of the menu is the Warm Berry Cobbler, with New England-grown blueberries and raspberries, which are tiny yet satisfy the palate with a wonderful flavor. It wasn't Haagen Dazs, but the oatmeal topping can compensate. Moreover, the dish arrives at the perfect temperature...
Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is all too easily proved right. But everyone once in a while a gem like As Good As It Gets comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor and, best of all, complicated and original characters. Beautifully acted and surprisingly quirky, As Good As It Gets is a feel good movie that you don't have to feel guilty to feel good about...
...deserve. The division between the rich and poor that dominates the early scenes gives way to a more complex dichotomy between suicide and self-preservation. Over-all, Titanic is a pyrrhic victory for James Cameron. But even if the film does not achieve its grand ambitions, a gem of a movie is still to be found within all of the excess
...school, where dealing with James Bond is a more important part of the curriculum than even sections devoted to Superman and proper income tax return techniques. They were most assuredly all absent the day The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was shown and Eli Wallach's priceless gem of wisdom was studied: "When you gotta shoot, shoot, don't talk...
...Life Last season was a dismal one for Broadway musicals--the off year between Rent and The Lion King--but it did produce one underrated gem, this tale of seedy Times Square before it got Disneyfied. Complain about the cliched book if you must, but few musicals are this hard-edged and slam-bang entertaining at the same time. And few songwriters can still turn out showstoppers like Cy Coleman...