Word: gems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rose Troche has created a small gem of a movie with her feature length film debut, "Go Fish." Billed as a portrait of urban lesbian life in the '90s, the film follows two main characters, Max (played superbly by Guinevere Turner) and Ely (the shy V.S. Brodie) as they fall in love with the help of their group of lesbian friends...
...interests -- major weapons systems, oil, gold -- was intrigued by the emeralds and wanted advice from his well-connected hosts. A month earlier, he had traveled deep into the Ural Mountains, driving over forest roads not shown on any map, following a trail of whispered rumors that a cache of gem- quality stones was up for grabs. A group of miners, fed up with laggard paychecks, had supposedly been holding back emeralds in hopes of finding a private buyer...
...rousing Just About Glad is a gem that captures the ambivalence of a man looking back on an affair that was never consummated. "There are a few things that I regret," Costello sings. "But nothing that I need to forget/ And for all the courage that we never had/ I'm just about glad." While Costello can still rave with more venom than many rockers half his age, some of Brutal Youth's finest moments come when he exposes the wounds under his verbal armor...
This album is a gem of a debut. Fortunately for us, Cercie and her quartet seem to have a long, locally based career ahead of them, and if they keep releasing music like that featured onDedication, jazz lovers will be all the richer...
Among the many loaded and profound messages conveyed, I did find one little gem of advice in "The Ref" particularly moving. Says Gus-robber-man to Jesse-delinquent-suburban-spawn, "kid, you may think running around stealing stuff is fun, but it really sucks." I think that Ted Demme is trying to reach the youth of America in this movie. He really wants to say, "Hey, kids. I know stealing stuff may be fun, but it really sucks...